ALT 27 New Novels in African Literature Today (EPDF) von Ernest N. Emenyonu

This issue of African Literature Today focuses on new novels by emerging as well as established African novelists.

Editorial article: The African novel in the 21st century: sustaining the gains of the 20th century - Ernest N. Emenyonu
Resurgent spirits, Catholic echoes of Igbo & petals of purple: the syncretised world of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'sPurple Hibiscus - Brenda Cooper
Ambivalent inscriptions: women, youth & diasporic identity in Buchi Emecheta's later fiction - Omar Sougou
The interrupted dance: racial memory in Isidore Okpewho'sCall Me By My Rightful Name - Clement Okafor
The Ivorian crisis & Ahmadou Kourouma's posthumous political novelQuand on refuse, on dit non - Sery Bailly
Women as the 'voice of the people'& the western audience: Ngugi'sWizard of the Crow - Joseph McLaren
Theankh &maat: symbols of successful revolution in Ayi Kwei Armah'sOsiris Rising - Sophie Akhuemokhan
A new African youth novel in the era of HIV/AIDS: an analysis of Unity Dow'sFar & beyon' - Machiko Oike
The prison of Nigerian woman: female complicity in Sefi Atta'sEverything Good Will Come - Florence Orabueze
Manufacturing skin for Somalia's history: Nuruddin Farah's deep hurt inLinks - Tej N. Dhar
A Zimbabwean ethic of humanity: Tsitsi Dangarembga'sThe Book of Not & theunhu philosophy of personhood: - Ada U. Azodo
Coming to America: Ike Oguine'sA Squatter's Tale & the Nigerian/African immigrant's narrative - Christopher Okonkwo
War discourse as fictional narrative: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'sHalf of a Yellow Sun - Charles Nnolim
Reviews - James Gibbs