Africa Writes Back was published in 2008 to coincide with the 50th
anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
- the novel which provided the impetus for the foundation of the
Heinemann African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the
Editorial Adviser. With the 50th anniversary of the AWS being
celebrated in 2012, James Currey's book has a new resonance. '...
not only the story of a publishing enterprise of great
significance; it is also a large part of the story of African
literature and its dissemination in the latter half of the
twentieth century. The manuscript is full of the drama of that
enterprise, the drama of dealing with the mother house, William
Heinemann, of dealing with the often intractable political
constraints dominating the intellectual space across Africa, and
not least of all dealing with the writers themselves - with their
ambitions, their temperaments, their financial needs and, at time,
their perception of a colonial relationship between themselves and
a European publishing house.' - Clive Wake, Emeritus Professor of
Modern Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury. North America:
Ohio U Press; South Africa: Wits U Press; Nigeria: HEBN; Kenya:
EAEP; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press
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