Primary Sources   I   African Theory & Criticism     

Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism," Yale Journal of Criticism 2 (1988).

Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la terre (1961, The Wretched of the Earth,trans. Constance Farrington, 1976).

Kimani Gecau, "Do Ethnic Languages Divide a Nation?" African Perspectives 2 (1978).

Kenneth Harrow, Jonathan Ngaté, and Clarissa Zimra, eds., Crisscrossing Boundaries in African Literatures (1991).

G. D. Killam, ed., African Writers on African Writing (1973).

Locha Mateso, La Littérature africaine et sa critique (1986).

Achille Mbembe, Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie (1999, On the Postcolony, trans. A. M. Barrett et al., 2001).

Emmanuel Ngara, Art and Ideology in the African Novel: A Study of the Influence of Marxism on African Writing (1985).

Emmanuel Ngara, "The Role of the African Writer in National Liberation and Social Reconstruction," Criticism and Ideology (ed. K. Petersen, 1988).

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986).

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Writers in Politics (1981).

Léopold Sédar Senghor, Les Fondements de l’africanité, ou négritude et arabité (1967, The Foundations of "Africanité" or "Négritude" and "Arabité,"trans. Mercer Cook, 1971).

Léopold Sédar Senghor, Prose and Poetry (ed. and trans. John Reed and Clive Wake, 1965).

Wole Soyinka, Myth, Literature, and the African World (1976).