NORTH-SOUTH LINKAGES AND CONNECTIONS IN CONTINENTAL AND DIASPORA AFRICAN LITERATURES

NORTH-SOUTH LINKAGES AND CONNECTIONS IN CONTINENTAL AND DIASPORA AFRICAN LITERATURESThis volume collects some of the best presentations offered at the African Literature Associations 25th annual conference held in 1999. The conference venue, Fez, Morocco, was an apt setting for the conferences theme: Continental North South and Diaspora Linkages and Connections, sitting on the cusp of the continent, reaching out and gathering in from all directions. Bringing together, for the first time, a large number of scholars, creative writers

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The poems sparkle with Marechera's unique wit

to her world travels as a bestselling writer

and hectic action are put into perspective by the controlled economy of Ekwensi’s writing

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and that there would be no easy understanding or acceptance of the kind of family she hoped to build

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Is it possible for one man to stay faithful to one woman in a city bursting at the seams with beautiful

and influential organizations

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