Voices from Twentieth-Century Africa: Griots and Towncriers by Chinweizu

Authors

Pamela Jo Thompson, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

Winter 1990

Publication Title

World Literature Today

Volume

64

Issue

1

First Page

179

Abstract

Voices from Twentieth-Century Africa, a comprehensive, one-volume introduction to African literature, is a spinoff of Chinweizu's (et alia) previous work, Toward the Decolonization of African Literature (1983; see WLT 58:2, p. 313), and a forerunner to the "anthology of 5000 years of Pan-african Literature promised therein.

Comments

This article was reused with kind permission.

Recommended Citation

Thompson, Pamela Jo, "Voices from Twentieth-Century Africa: Griots and Towncriers by Chinweizu" (1990). Foreign Languages and Literature Faculty Publications. 17.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/foreignlangfacpub/17