Focusing in on book launches hosted by publishers Kachifo in Lagos for Eghosa Imasuen's
Fine Boys (2011) and by Kwani Trust in Nairobi for Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's Dust (2013) …

The Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures is the first globally comprehensive attempt
to chart the rich field of world literatures in English. Part I navigates different usages of the …

Set at the turn of the twentieth century, as Germany consolidated control over its East African
colony, Abdulrazak Gurnah's 1994 novel Paradise encompasses the last of the “Arab” …

This inaugural issue of Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (EALCS) is a journey
into the past as well as the future, literally and literarily. As the editors, this edition is itself …

This chapter sets out to make a case in defence of foundational writers in Africa by making
general reference to the works of two South African writers, Es' kia Mphahlele and Peter …

“Changing Patterns of the Shona Novel from Zimbabwe: A Linguistic Literary Analysis”
directed by Flora Veit-Wild at Humboldt University in Berlin. Starting from the premise that …

This study explores Busara, Mũtiiri and Kwani? as magazines that are representative of
some defining moments in Kenya's literary history. Using a historical approach, I have …

Two languages have been particularly important in shaping the literary landscape of East
Africa: Swahili and English. Today, the most vibrant contact zones between literature in …

The title immediately raises a follow-up question: how does one 'value'East African
Anglophone (and selected English-mediated works) highlighting the texts' aesthetic range …

In this article I address how East African writers have responded to and conceptualized the
encounter with development in works of fiction. The article combines two lines of enquiry …