num_pages: 332
description: Islam has shaped the culture of more than a third of the continent, and provides a critical component in the works of many prominent African writers. Yet critics often perpetuate the notion that black African literatures are an amalgam of traditional African and Western literary cultures. The contributions in this collection range widely throughout much of Africa but are carefully linked in a comparative context through the introduction and the regional overviews.
language: English
title: Faces of Islam in African Literature
publisher: Heinemann Educational Books