African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies
Wisner ensures that the continent's multi-hyphenated rainbow of nonfiction writing, old and new, at all edges of the continental compass gets [the] chance [to be heard]. --Todd Steven Burroughs, Ebony.com[A] remarkable book.... Full of memorable anecdotes and images right through the final entry. --Publishers WeeklyAn amazing anthology a cacophony of African voices in splendid diversity as vast as the continent itself. --Adele Newson-Horst, World Literature Today