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This issue of African Literature Today focuses on new novels by
emerging as well as established African novelists. This is a
seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the
new generation of African novelists is remarkably different in
vision, style, and worldview from the older generation. The
contention is that the oldergeneration novelists who were too close
to the colonial period in Africa had invariably made
culture-conflict and little else their dominant thematic concern
while the younger generation novelists are more versatile in their
thematic preoccupations, and are more global in their vision and
style. Do the facts in the novels justify and validate these
claims? The 13 papers in this volume have been carefully selected
to consider these issues. Brenda Cooper a renowned literary scholar
from Cape Town writes on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple
Hibiscus, while Charles Nnolim writes about Adichie's more recent
novel Half of a Yellow Sun; Omar Sougou of Universite GastonBerger,
Senegal discusses 'ambivalent inscriptions' in Buchi Emecheta's
later novels; Clement Okafor of the University of Maryland,
addresses the theme of 'racial memory' in Isidore Okpewho's Call Me
By My Rightful Name, juxtaposed between the world of the old and
the realities of the present. Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University,
New York, discusses Ngugi's latest novel, Wizard of the Crow, while
Machiko Oike, Hiroshima University, Japan looksat a new theme in
African adolescent literature, 'youth in an era of HIV/AIDS'. There
is abundant evidence of the contrasts and diversities which
characterize the African novel not only geographically, but also
ideologically andgenerationally. ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of
the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint.
Nigeria: HEBN
The final of the Nigerian National Under-twenty Chess Tournament is
being fiercely contested by two local boys: Chinda Onyemere and
Daniel Oke Junior. The result will shape their futures in a way
neither of them could have predicted. Set against a backdrop of
civil unrest, abused authority and corrupt government and social
systems, Concentric Circles is the story of these two young men and
their families as they struggle to make their way in a world that
rewards cunning, greed and violence at the expense of honesty and
hard work. Christopher Okonkwo studied bio- chemistry in Nigeria. A
former Nigerian national under-sixteen chess champion, Christopher
felt his world falling apart when he lost two of his brothers,
sixteen months apart, in road accidents. Now he hopes to enjoy a
new lease of life doing what he's always been passionate about:
writing.
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