Contemporary African writers
By: edited by Tanure Ojaide
Series: Dictionary of literary biography -- v. 360; Dictionary of literary biography -- v. 360.
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780787681784
Subjects: African Authors; Biography; Dictionaries; African literature (English); Bio-bibliography; African literature
Notes: "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mohammed Ben Abdallah (1944- ); title: Leila Abouzeid (1950- ); title: Zaynab Alkali (1950- ); title: Jared Angira (1947- ); title: Meshack Asare (1945- ); title: Mariama Bâ (1929-1981); title: Biyi Bandele (Biyi Bandele-Thomas) (1967- ); title: Bate Besong (1954-2007); title: Syl Cheney-Coker (1945- ); title: Steve Chimombo (1945- ); title: Shimmer Chinodya (Ben Chirasha) (1957- ); title: Frank Chipasula (1949- ); title: Mia Couto (António Emílio Leite Couto) (1955- ); title: Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959- ); title: Sandile Dikeni (1966- ); title: Mbella Sonne Dipoko (1936-2009); title: Emmanuel Dongala (1941- ); title: Ashur Etwebi (1952- ); title: Ezenwa-Ohaeto (1958-2005); title: Chenjerai Hove (1954- ); title: Sonallah Ibrahim (1937- ); title: Moses Isegawa (Sey Wava) (1963- ); title: Ahmadou Kourouma (1927-2003); title: Mandla Langa (1950- ); title: Camara Laye (Laye Camara) (1928-1980); title: Werewere Liking (Eddy Nicole Njock) (1950- ); title: Sindiwe Magona (1943- ); title: Jamal Mahjoub (1960- ); title: Mongo Beti (Alexandre Biyidi, Eza Boto) (1932-2001); title: Micere Githae Mugo (1942- ); title: Charles Mungoshi (1947- ); title: Mbulelo Mzamane (1948- ); title: Nkem Nwankwo (1936-2001); title: Odia Ofeimun (1950- ); title: Ogali A. Ogali (1935?-2006); title: Tanure Ojaide (1948- ); title: Atukwei Okai (1941- ); title: Tess Onwueme (1955- ); title: Sembène Ousmane (Ousmane Sembène) (1923-2007); title: Ferdinand Oyono (1929-2010); title: Nawal El Saadawi (1931- ); title: Tijan M. Sallah (1958- ); title: Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941-1995); title: Sony Labou Tansi (Marcel Nstoni) (1947-1995); title: Veronique Tadjo (1955- ); title: Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard (1938-2009); title: Can Themba (1924-1968); title: Timothy Wangusa (1942- )