African Literature - Secondary Literature

Secondary Literature

  • Berhanemariam, Sahlesillasse, The Warrior King, 1974.
  • Busby, Margaret (ed.), Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present, Random House, 1992.
  • Gikandi, Simon (ed.), Encyclopedia of African Literature, London: Routledge, 2003.
  • Gordon, April A. and Gordon, Donald L., Understanding Contemporary Africa, London: Lynne Rienner, 1996, ch. 12, George Joseph, "African Literature".
  • Irele, Abiola, and Simon Gikandi (eds),The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature, 2 vols, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004. Table of contents
  • Mazrui, Ali A. (ed.), General History of Africa, vol. VIII, UNESCO, 1993, ch. 19, Ali A. Mazrui et al., "The development of modern literature since 1935".
  • Werku, Dagnachew, The Thirteenth Sun, 1968.

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