Notes and sources on African Literature

Some arbitrary pointers to a reader for whom African literature on other themes than slavery and the slave trade is an unexplored field. These sections concern Africa's leading writers, including Ghana's Ama Ata Aidoo and Nigeria's Chinua Achebe

Criticism

More Criticism

African Literature on the Internet

• Voices: The Wisconsin Review of African Literatures http://african.lss.wisc.edu/voices/voices_frm2.htm
• African Literature: Drama http://www.sas.upenn.edu/AfricanStudies/Publications/BCdram.html
• African Literature: Fiction http://www.sas.upenn.edu/AfricanStudies/Publications/BCfic.html
• African Literature: Collections http://www.sas.upenn.edu/AfricanStudies/Publications/BClitcol.html
• African Literature: History and Criticism http://www.sas.upenn.edu/AfricanStudies/Publications/BClitflk.html
• African Literature: Poetryhttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/AfricanStudies/Publications/BClitpoet.html

Suppliers

• Africa Book Centre, London (An excellent and comprehensive source). http://www.africabookcentre.com and mail orders@africabookcentre.com
• Books by African Publishers are available from: African Books Collective The Jam Factory 27 Park End Street Oxford OX1 1HU, UK Tel:+44-(0)1865-726686 Fax:+44-(0)1865-793298 E-mail:abc@dial.pipex.com http://www.africanbookscollective.com
• The same books are distributed in the U.S. by the Michigan State University Press http://msupress.msu.edu/series.php?seriesID=22

Links

• Femmes écrivains et les littératures africaines. A very useful site. Francophone African literature women writers ; background information, consult authors by countries, look at a few unpublished texts or glance at the many interviews published (in French) by the magazine Amina. http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/FEMEChome.html or in English http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/FEMEChomeEN.html#english
• H-Africa, Bibliographies, Documents and Essays
• H-AfrLitCine reviews