Eulogy for an Artist, a Statesman, a Teacher & Friend Kofi Awoonor

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication vii
3. Contents ix
4. Notes on Contributors xii
5. Editorial Fiction & Socio-Political Realities in Africa: What Else Can Literature Do? 1
6. The Novel as an Oral Narrative Performance 7
7. Abiku in Ben Okri’s Imagination of Nationhood 20
8. Refracting the Political 33
9. Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Resolutionaries 47
10. In Quest of Social Justice 58
11. Breaking the Laws in J.M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus 77
12. The Rhetoric & Caricature of Social Justice in Post-1960 Africa 91
13. ‘Manhood’ in Isidore Okpewho’s The Last Duty 104
14. Remembering Kofi Awoonor 13 March 1935–21 September 2013
15. Kofi Awoonor: In Retrospect 120
16. Kofi Awoonor: Poem for a Mentor & Friend 135
17. Looking Death in the Eye: The Human Condition, Morbidity & Mortality in Kofi Awoonor’s Poetry 137
18. Eulogy for an Artist, a Statesman, a Teacher & Friend Kofi Awoonor 151
19. Post-Colonial Trauma & the Poetics of Remembering in the Novels of Kofi Awoonor 158
20. Song for Nyidevu 173
21. REVIEWS
22. Chima Anyadike and Kehinde A. Ayoola, eds, Blazing the Path: Fifty Years of Things Fall Apart 174
23. Nana Ayebia Clarke and James Currey eds, Chinua Achebe: Tributes & Reflections 178
24. François Guiyoba et Pierre Halen, eds. L’Impact des missions chrétiennes sur la constitution des champs littéraires locaux en Afrique 180
25. Astrid Van Weyenberg. The Politics of Adaptation – Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy 182
26. Taona D. Chiveneko, The Hangman’s Replacement Book 1: Sprout of Disruption 185
27. Fagunwa, Daniel O. Forest of a Thousand Daemons, translated by Wole Soyinka, illustrated by Bruce Onabrakpeya 188
28. Caroline Davies. Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers & British Publishers 190
29. Wumi Raji. Contemporary Literature of Africa: Tijan M. Sallah & Literary Works of The Gambia 194