Scrolls of the Living Night is a poem 348 pages long, or rather a story told in verse, divided into three books. It is an epic poem that explores the conflicts between good and evil. It is written in a style and form that is reminiscent of Derek Walcott's Omeros. Kwakye's evocative blend of detail, memory, stories, characters and lyrical commentary makes this book an ambitious project that will have a lasting impact on the reader. Traditional and modern Ghanaian/African culture clash in this courageous adventure rich with memorable characters, myths, places and sophisticated language.

Scrolls of the Living Night

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Kwakye, Benjamin

Fantasy

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New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene shares with readers an interview inspired by correspondence and prolonged conversations on the telephone. The focus of this interview, Mazisi Kunene, is arguably one of Africa's greatest poets. Kunene's contributions to African literature as both scholar and artist remains significant, given his commitment to writing in his indigenous Zulu language and translating his corpus into English. Ntongela Masilela, a close friend to Kunene and scholar who has written extensively on Kunene oeuvre, shares views that center primarily on Kunene's importance in African literature, and his role and place in South African literary and cultural revolution.

New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene

Literature & Fiction

Okoro, Dike

History & Criticism

The Count's False Banquet

Benjamin Kwakye

Nigerian playwright DIPO KALEJAIYE relates an educator and writer's experience of living in Nigeria and the United States in his latest memoir, Some Memories of California. The book charts the author's formative years as a lecturer in Nigeria and leaves readers with no doubt as to how the geographical, spiritual, political, and cultural aspects of his West African homeland prepared him for the amazing sojourn he undertakes upon his arrival in California, USA. Suffused with humor and grit, this is a purely personal tale that pushes to the forefront the African immigrant's experience in the United States. Kalejaiye's African background as a young lecturer, artist and family man is cleverly pitted against the American experience that seems to challenge and define his role as a fledgling but ambitious playwright who overcomes the odds to triumph in the end. Without equivocation, this book should serve as an informative read for lovers of memoirs exploring wit and adroitness to make peculiar humane concerns accessible to readers.

Some Memories of California

Biographies & Memoirs

Kalejaiye, Dipo

Memoirs

The Trial Of Robert Mugabe

Chielo Zona Eze

Unable to recall when exactly he died, Robert Mugabe is shocked to be in the presence of God for trial. Facing him are countless people who died during his regime. They tell their stories, after which God condemns him to hell. Mugabe suddenly wakes up, in Harare, realizing he just had a dreadful dream. "This important book draws deep from the well of African literature to challenge a post-independence leadership whose discourse of victimhood has been used to legitimate the most appalling brutalities. Chielozona Eze makes Robert Mugabe answerable for the massacres of Gukurahundi in the 1980s and the tortures and rapes perpetrated by the Green Bombers in the 2000s. A skillfully crafted novel and a deep philosophical analysis of postcolonial fever." - Prof. Meg Samuelson, Stellenbosch University "A gripping account of the horrors of the Mugabe regime- and a passionate call for liberation from dictators everywhere." - Robert Hughes, author of Running with Walker

The Trial of Robert Mugabe

Eze, Chielozona

Tanure Ojaide: Life, Literature and the Environment

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Obsessions of Paradise

ThunderClaps: New and Selected Poems by Lupenga Mphande

Lupenga Mphande

Tanure Ojaide: Selected Poems Volume 1

Tanure Ojaide

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