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African Literature Today (ALT) was founded in 1968 by Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones and these annual volumes were edited by Eldred and Marjorie Jones, and Professor Eustace Palmer, until ALT 23. In 2003 Professor Ernest N. Emenyonu took over as editor and has continued to build on the series’ well-established reputation in literary studies.

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9 results in African Literature Today

African Literature in African Languages
  • General editor Ernest N. Emenyonu
  • Edited by Nduka Otiono, Chiji Akọma
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    22 February 2024
    Print publication:
    19 December 2023
  • Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers.

ALT 39
  • Speculative and Science Fiction
  • Edited by Louisa Uchum Egbunike, Chimalum Nwankwo
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 October 2022
    Print publication:
    19 November 2021
  • Explores the ways in which African writers have approached speculative fiction through in-depth articles on the use of language, terminology and the genealogy of the works.

ALT 38 Environmental Transformations

ALT 37
  • African Literature Today
  • Volume 37
  • Edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 April 2020
    Print publication:
    15 November 2019
  • AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY was established at a time of uncertainty and reconstruction but for 50 years it has played a leading role in nurturing imaginative creativity and its criticism on the African continent and beyond.

ALT 36: Queer Theory in Filmand Fiction
  • African Literature Today
  • Volume 36
  • Ernest N. Emenyonu, John C. Hawley
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 March 2020
    Print publication:
    16 November 2018
  • ALT 36 turns a "queer eye" on Africa offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased sexualities and contemporary sexual expression among Africans on the continent and abroad.

ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction
  • African Literature Today
  • With contributions by Sophie Akhuemokhan , James Arnett , David Borman , Amanda Lagji , Stephen Ney , H. Oby Okolocha , Michael P. K. O. Okyerefo , Julia Udofia and Helen Yitah
  • Edited by Helen Cousins, Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, Ernest N. Emenyonu
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    08 April 2017
    Print publication:
    18 November 2016
  • This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the African diaspora: from Equiano's autobiography in 1789 to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 novel Americanah. African literature has represented returnees in a range of locations and dislocations including having a sense of belonging, being alienated in a country they can no longer recognize, or experiencing a multiple sense of place. Contributors, writing on literature from the 1970s to the present, examine the extent to which the original place can be reclaimed with or without renegotiations of "home".

    GUEST EDITORS: HELEN COUSINS, Reader in Postcolonial Literature at Newman University, Birmingham, UK; PAULINE DODGSON-KATIYO, Head of English at Newman University, Birmingham, UK.

    Series Editor: Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

    Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma

ALT 33 Children's Literature & Story-telling
  • African Literature Today
  • Edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu
  • With contributions by Yvonne E. McIntosh , Iniobong I. Uko , Faith Ben-Daniels , Eve Eisenberg , Julia Udofia , Juliana Daniels , Blessings Diala-Ogamba , Patrica T. Emenyonu , Louisa Uchum Egbunike , Rose Sackeyfio , Kelvin Ngong Toh , Wazha Lopang , Obi Nwakanama and Ikeogu Oke
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    22 May 2021
    Print publication:
    19 November 2015
  • Africa's encounter with the West and its implications and consequences remain far-reaching and enduring in the craft and thrust of its creative writers. The contributors to ALT 33 analyse the connections between traditional stories and myths that have been told to children, as well as the work of contemporary creative writers who are writing for children in order that they understand this complex history. Some of these writers are developing traditional myths, folk tales, and legends and are writing them in new forms, while others focus on the encounter with the West that has dominated much modern African literature for adults.
    The previous neglect of the cultural significance, study, criticism and teaching of children's literature is addressed in this volume: How can the successes and/or failures of stories and story-telling for children in Africa be measured? Are there models to be followed and what makes them models? What is the relationship between the text and the illustration of children's books? What should guide the reader or critic of children's literature coming out of Africa - globalism, transculturality or internal regionalism? What problems confront teachers, students, publishers and promoters of children's books in Africa?

    Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA; the editorial board is composed of scholars from US, UK and African universities.

    Obi Nwakanma is now Reviews Editor for the series

    HEBN: Nigeria

Politics and Social Justice
  • African Literature Today 32
  • Edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 February 2023
    Print publication:
    20 November 2014
  • Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism.

Writing Africa in the Short Story
  • Edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    21 November 2013
  • African writers have, much more than the critics, recognized the beauty and potency of the short story. Always the least studied in African literature classrooms and the most critically overlooked genre in African literature today, the African short story is now given the attention it deserves. Contributors here take a close look at the African short story to re-define its own peculiar pedigree, chart its trajectory, critique its present state and examine its creative possibilities. They examine how the short story and the novel complement each other, or exist in contradistinction, within the context of culture and politics, history and public memory, legends, myths and folklore. Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA; the editorial board is composed of scholars from US, UK and African universities. Nigeria: HEBN