Moradewun Adejunmobi is a professor at the University of California, Davis and author of JJ Rabearivelo, Literature and Lingua Franca in Colonial Madagascar (1996), and Vernacular Palaver: Imaginations of the Local and Non-Native Languages in West Africa (2004). She is a co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of African Literature (2019).

• Introduction Moradewun Adejunmobi; Part I. Micro-Histories of Genres: 1. The African dictator novel Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ; 2. Endless war: African child soldier narratives Joya Uraizee; 3. The human, the nonhuman, and socio-ecological justice: a historical survey of African environmental literature Sule Emmanuel Egya; 4. Waves of fury: South African protest poetry since 1950 Tom Penfold; 5. Francophone West African activist theatre in transition Heather Jeanne Denyer; 6. A treatise on Zimbabwean theatre genres: domestic drama and protest theatre Samuel Ravengai; Part II. Genres in Transition: 7. African travel writing Maureen Amimo; 8. Parallel existences and manifold ancestries: the multiplicity of the Swahili Shairi genre Clarissa Vierke; 9. African prison writings Isaac Ndlovu; 10. Autobiographical genres in French language writing from Africa Susanne Gehrmann; 11. Queer as a genre in African literatures Gibson Ncube; 12. Market literature: from Onitsha origins to Ghanaian progeny Esther de Bruijn; Part III. Experiments with Genre: 13. The graphic narrative as site of cultural negotiation Charlotta Salmi; 14. Experimental writing: language, genre, text Alena Rettová; 15. The reemergence of African science and speculative fiction (ASF) Peter J. Maurits; 16. Genre in African online creative writing Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang; 17. Indigenous Hausa fiction and transmediality in Northern Nigeria Umma Musa Aliyu.

Moradewun Adejunmobi is a professor at the University of California, Davis and author of JJ Rabearivelo, Literature and Lingua Franca in Colonial Madagascar (1996), and Vernacular Palaver: Imaginations of the Local and Non-Native Languages in West Africa (2004). She is a co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of African Literature (2019).

• Introduction Moradewun Adejunmobi; Part I. Micro-Histories of Genres: 1. The African dictator novel Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ; 2. Endless war: African child soldier narratives Joya Uraizee; 3. The human, the nonhuman, and socio-ecological justice: a historical survey of African environmental literature Sule Emmanuel Egya; 4. Waves of fury: South African protest poetry since 1950 Tom Penfold; 5. Francophone West African activist theatre in transition Heather Jeanne Denyer; 6. A treatise on Zimbabwean theatre genres: domestic drama and protest theatre Samuel Ravengai; Part II. Genres in Transition: 7. African travel writing Maureen Amimo; 8. Parallel existences and manifold ancestries: the multiplicity of the Swahili Shairi genre Clarissa Vierke; 9. African prison writings Isaac Ndlovu; 10. Autobiographical genres in French language writing from Africa Susanne Gehrmann; 11. Queer as a genre in African literatures Gibson Ncube; 12. Market literature: from Onitsha origins to Ghanaian progeny Esther de Bruijn; Part III. Experiments with Genre: 13. The graphic narrative as site of cultural negotiation Charlotta Salmi; 14. Experimental writing: language, genre, text Alena Rettová; 15. The reemergence of African science and speculative fiction (ASF) Peter J. Maurits; 16. Genre in African online creative writing Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang; 17. Indigenous Hausa fiction and transmediality in Northern Nigeria Umma Musa Aliyu.

Moradewun Adejunmobi is a professor at the University of California, Davis and author of JJ Rabearivelo, Literature and Lingua Franca in Colonial Madagascar (1996), and Vernacular Palaver: Imaginations of the Local and Non-Native Languages in West Africa (2004). She is a co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of African Literature (2019).

• Introduction Moradewun Adejunmobi; Part I. Micro-Histories of Genres: 1. The African dictator novel Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ; 2. Endless war: African child soldier narratives Joya Uraizee; 3. The human, the nonhuman, and socio-ecological justice: a historical survey of African environmental literature Sule Emmanuel Egya; 4. Waves of fury: South African protest poetry since 1950 Tom Penfold; 5. Francophone West African activist theatre in transition Heather Jeanne Denyer; 6. A treatise on Zimbabwean theatre genres: domestic drama and protest theatre Samuel Ravengai; Part II. Genres in Transition: 7. African travel writing Maureen Amimo; 8. Parallel existences and manifold ancestries: the multiplicity of the Swahili Shairi genre Clarissa Vierke; 9. African prison writings Isaac Ndlovu; 10. Autobiographical genres in French language writing from Africa Susanne Gehrmann; 11. Queer as a genre in African literatures Gibson Ncube; 12. Market literature: from Onitsha origins to Ghanaian progeny Esther de Bruijn; Part III. Experiments with Genre: 13. The graphic narrative as site of cultural negotiation Charlotta Salmi; 14. Experimental writing: language, genre, text Alena Rettová; 15. The reemergence of African science and speculative fiction (ASF) Peter J. Maurits; 16. Genre in African online creative writing Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang; 17. Indigenous Hausa fiction and transmediality in Northern Nigeria Umma Musa Aliyu.