Writing and Africa

This collection discusses writing from and about Africa touching on studies in black writing, colonialism and imperialism and cultural development in the third world. It begins by providing an historical introduction to the main regional traditions, and then builds on this to discuss major issues, such as oral tradition, the significance of 'literature' as a western import, representations of Africa in western writing, African writing against colonialism and its themes and politics in a post-colonial world, popular writing, and the representation of women.