Author: Obiechina, Emmanuel N.
Title: Language and Theme. Essays on African Literature
Description: Washington, D.C. Howard University Press, 1990. orig. cloth. 24x16cm, ix, 249 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Growth of Written Literature in English-Speaking West Africa;Amos Tutuola and the African Novel; Language and the African Novel; Perceptions of Colonialism in West African Literature; Politics in the Early African Novel; Port-Independence Disillusionment; Victimization as a Theme; Nsukka: Literature in an African Environment; Christopher Okigbo: Poet of Destiny.

Keywords: West African Fiction, Oral Literature, Achebe, Chinua, Soyinka, Wole, Armah, Ayi Kwei, Okara, Gabriel, Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa, Tutuola, Amos, Literary Criticism