In Nuggets of the African Novel With Notes on the Liberian Literary
Heritage], Nagbe charts a critical course which seeks to
consolidate a unit approach to African literature, reinforcing one
continental mind and soul. He has summarized nearly thirty African
novels in Nuggets. The summaries are rich. The comments are
insightful. They contain very many topics that will possibly evoke
or sustain interest in the novels themselves and interest in seeing
literature as an irresistible shadow of history. Even so, on the
pages the reader will understand that because all literature tells
the human story, all literature speaks a universal language. The
notes on the Liberian component of African literature are
revealing. Only a few of Nagbe's compatriots can boast of the
insight which he brings to the subject of the ironies and forces
that have impacted the progress of imaginative writing in Liberia,
a modern nation state established by repatriated African Americans.
Even so, the three phases of national struggle which Nagbe
constantly refers to in the 'Notes' as 'intra-national' struggle is
poignant. Here lies an important testimony of the biting pain which
the politics of long suffering can inflict on a nation. It is an
implicit testimony of the attributes of the mental ailment which,
with insidious and protracted attack, decimates a person or a group
of people. In a larger sense, the Liberian story is the story of
Africa and her scars from cultural misinformation and confusion,
and what needs to be done in the new millennium.
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