Today BlackStudies programs are often regarded as campus hideouts for anti-intellectual
students and professors who lack the ability or inclination to enter more rigorous academic …

This collection of essays addresses questions pertinent to the teaching of the relatively new
discipline surrounding the teaching and researching of African literature. A valuable …

Teaching and researching African literatures are relatively new academic enterprises. Forty
years ago hardly anyone was engaged in such activities, but today hundreds of teachers …

In a rather loose, personal way I would like to address myself to the problems of the
extremely tenuous position that African literature holds in the American university, and to a …

About a year ago Biodun Jeyifo told me of a conversation he had with one of his Ph. D.
students. She had come to his office in a panic, informing him that her advisor had told her …

Any contemporary collection of criticism on African literature gives pause for reflection on the
great debate. Few need explanations as to what that debate is, but for those who have been …