ALT 26 War in African Literature Today

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). CHIMALUM NWANKWO is Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria. He has previously taught at the Universities of Nigeria, East Carolina-Greenville, North Carolina A & T State University-Greensboro, where he was Professor of English and World Literatures and Former Chair of the Department of English, Nigeria Turkish Nile University in Abuja. He was Guest Editor of ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives. His other critical studies include Of the Deepest Shadows and The Prisons of Fire (2010) and Toward the kingdom of Woman and Man: The Works of Ngugi wa Thiongo (1992). He is also an acclaimed poet, who has published five volumes of poetry, including The Womb in the Heart and Other Poems and Lovesong for Julian Assange & Poems from Love Mountain. CHRISTINE MATZKE, Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt-University, Berlin. 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).

The African Literature Today series has greatly enriched the study of contemporary African writing. [...] These articles provide real insights for the reading and understanding of political instability and volatility in most parts of Africa. [...] This volume stands out clearly as a groundbreaking one in that it privileges all forms of African creativity as well as authors irrespective of sex or class. [It] is a brilliant attempt to weave an 'authentic history' of wars in Africa, and is a thoroughly researched project that opens a door into Africa's soul and its unpredictable and precarious condition.

• Editorial article. War in African literature: literary harvests, human tragedies - Ernest N. EmenyonuThe muted index of war in African literature & society - Chimalum Nwankwo'Life in the camp of the enemy': Alemseged Tesfai's theatre of war - Christine MatzkeSacrifice & contestation of identity in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawn - Clement OkaforOf war & madness: a symbolic transmutation of the Nigeria-Biafra war in select stories from The Insider:Stories of War & Peace from Nigeria - Iniobong I. UkoBecoming a feminist writer: representation of the subaltern in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra - Oike MachikoPolitics & human rights in non-fiction prison literature - Sophia O. OgwudeProblems of representing the Zimbabwean war of liberation in Mutasa's The Contract, Samupinda's Pawns & Vera's The Stone Virgins - Maurice Taonezvi VambeThe need to go further? Dedication & distance in the war narratives of Alexandra Fuller & Alexander Kanengoni - Zoe NorridgeHistory, memoir & a soldier's conscience: Philip Efiong's Nigeria & Biafra: My Story - Isidore DialaOf the versification of pain: Nigerian civil war poetry - Ogaga OkuyadeReviews - James Gibbs