Presents her works and offers new perspectives and challenges to Western criticism. Notes, bib, index, 216pp, USA. FLORIDA U P, 0813012767

Brings a number of critical perspectives to focus on the signal work of Ghanaian writer Amma Darko. She is recognized in these interdisciplinary essays, as a significant writer whose storytelling talent documents for generations of Africans and other readers, the continents globalization pains. What is revealed is a complex writer, who knows how to tell a good story, yet is confident enough in her art to deliver a stinging and unflinching criticism of what Ghana has become as it, and its people, are evermore enmeshed in global capitalism. 160pp, UK. AYEBIA.

Contains twenty two essays on the works and career of Ayi Kwei Armah, giving critical responses on his short stories, essays, journalistic articles, and all five novels. Looking at his narrative techniques, his use of symbolism and metaphor, use of mythology, and ritual undercurrents. Bib, notes, 354pp, USA. THREE CONTINENTS PRESS.

A collection of essays on Ghana's foremost woman writer which 'memorializes (her) deep sense of history and consciousness of a feminism that is unyielding in its inscription of the balance and wisdom of Africa'. BNS, bib, index, 418pp, USA. RED SEA PRESS, 0865435812

A study of the unofficial side of African fiction which exist outside the grid of mass?production looking at how narrative forms are borrowed, re?written and regenerated by authors and readers. Gender relations and cross?cultural perspectives are also explored. Index, bib, b/w illus, ix, 180pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Critical study of Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah's five novels: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born (1968), Fragments (1969), Two Thousand Seasons (1973), The Healers (1973) and Osiris Rising (1995). Considers Armah's attempts to resist Africa's failed ruling elites and their international collaborators. Index, bib, 202pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

An examination of the activities of African readers in the Gold Coast between 1880 and 1940, and the pan West African cultural and political networks that grew up around the English language in the decades before colonialism. Index, bib, ix, 242pp, UK. MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS, 0719062748

This collection brings together essays written over a thirty-five year period. They reflect James Gibbs’s position vis-à-vis the Ghanaian theatre as sometimes a remote onlooker, sometimes an enthusiastic participant observer, deeply involved in issues of perception and influence in a society moving through colonialism to nationalism, independence and beyond. 238pp, NETHERLANDS. RODOPI.