Publisher's Synopsis
This compact guide is a compilation of all the articles on African literature that originally appeared in Frederick Ungar's "Encyclopaedia of World Literature in the 20th Century". Coverage includes the Arabic countries of north Africa, black and white writers of sub-Saharan Africa writing in English, French, Portugese, Afrikaans, Creole languages and indigenous languages, and the influential concept of Negritude. 43 individual articles cover major writers including Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Athol Fugard and Nadime Gordimer.
