Gideon Akinwale Oladayo is a doctoral scholar in Comparative Literature at Purdue University, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in German. His interdisciplinary research connects German and African ...

The question of whether contemporary African writers still uphold autochthony, the preservation, promotion and representation ...

Yale faculty member Cajetan Iheka was an undergraduate in his home country of Nigeria at the height of unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta in the 2000s. Militants were setting fire to oil installations ...

African literature is the object of immense international interest across both academic and popular registers. Far from the field’s earlier, post-colonial association with marginality, a handful of ...

Definitions: 'From the rubbish-heap'. World literature and national literatures. The cultures of Africa. The literatures of Africa -- Early writers of African descent: Pre-Islamic and early Islamic ...

The inaugural Sharjah Festival of African Literature (SFAL) was held January 24–27 in University City, Sharjah, U.A.E., during the only time of year when cool temperatures allow for an outdoor event.

This interview, conducted by Élisabeth Nicolini with Élimane Fall present, was published in Jeune Afrique no.1314, dated 12 March 1986. We know him as a revolutionary fighter; less as a literature ...