A critical study which explores the range and content of African verse. The text embraces oral poetry and francophone verse.

Emmanuel Ngara evaluates the ability of poets to communicate with their readers. His two studies of style and ideology in novels from Africa have made a conside

Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. B

Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres – poe

What is literature? What is poetry? How do poets committed to the idea of using poetry as a weapon of socio-cultural and political struggle manage to impress th