Books by Ernest N. Emenyonu

This issue of African Literature Today focuses on new novels by emerging as well as established African novelists.

As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.

Contributors analyse the theories behind children's literature, its functions and cultural significance, and suggest the new directions this literature is taking in terms of its craft, themes and intentions.

Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism.

The success of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the growth of online publishing have played key roles in putting the short story in its rightful place within the study and criticism of African literature.