Title: Ordering the African imagination : essays on culture and literature /
Authors: Ojaide, Tanure, 1948-
Publisher: Malthouse Press Limited,
Year: 2007
Subjects: African literature History and criticism; Literature and society Africa History; Politics and literature Africa History; Africa Civilization
Contents: 1. The challenges of the African writer today -- 2. African culture and the New World Order -- 3. Nativity and the creative process: The Niger Delta in my poetry -- 4. African culture today -- 5. Divine mentoring in poetry and its performance -- 6. Self, myth and historical consciousness: an African writer's reflection -- 7. Nigerian literature in the 21st century: what direction? -- 8. Whose English?: The African writer and the language issue -- 9. Expanding the curriculum in American schools: Why include African literature? -- 10. How the Urhobo people see the world through art -- 11. Countering terror in the literary world: the example of activism -- 12. Anxieties and hopes: recent African poetry -- 13. Inviting the world into the house of words: the writer, his place, people and audience -- 14. Reviews of some published African poetry books.