ALT 24 New Women's Writing in African Literature

ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).

Ernest Emenyonu has certainly continued in the excellent tradition set by Eldred Jones, but he has widened the scope of the journal. There is every indication that this journal will be responding to the development of African literatures in its focus.

• Editorial - To trans-emote a cosmos: Yvonne Vera's holistic feminist vision in Butterfly Burning by Chimalum Nwankwo - Season of desert flowers: contemporary women's poetry from Northern Nigeria by Aderemi Raji-Oyelade - Calixthe Beyala rebels against female oppression by Tunde Fatunde - Representations of the womanist discourse in the short fiction of Akachi Ezigbo & Chinwe Okechukwu by Ijeoma Nwajiaku - From liminality to centrality: Kekelwa Nyanya's Hearthstones by Monica Bungaro - Ken Bugul's Le Boabab fou: a female story about a female body by Ada Uzoamuka Azoda - Submit or kill yourself...your two choices: options for wives in African women's fiction by Helen Cousins - Exile & identity in Buchi Emecheta's The New Tribe by Clement A. Okafor - A failed sexual rebellion: the case of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa by Iniobong I. Uko - Space within & space without: a reading of Zaynab Alkali's The Still Born by Hannah Ngozi Chukwu - Usurpation & the umbilical victim in Zulu Sofola's King Emene by Azubike Iloeje - Reviews section