The Rienner Anthology of African Literature
With interest in African American literature now happily a fact of our cultural life, it is time for us to turn our attention to African literature, which is as rich and various, as diverse and compelling, as the continent of Africa itself. This superb anthology will bring African literature front and center, where it belongs. --Henry Louis Gates, Harvard UniversityA Herculean labor of dedication and love.... The incontestable value of this anthology is in its gathering together of, and making available, materials which show the range, richness and variety of the corpus.... Every undergraduate library in the country should have a copy ... on its shelves. --Saul Steier, San Francisco Humanities ReviewAn exceptionally fine historical survey of African literature. --Charlotte Lindgren, American Reference Books Annual