Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in NigeriaGreed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell, and read novels in Africa's most populous nation. |
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... Hausa city - states ( Kano , Katsina ) build walled towns . Oyo kingdom surpasses Ife in Yorubaland . Benin becomes major power between Yorubaland and the Niger . First European slave trade between Portuguese and Benin . Nri Kingdom ...
... ( Hausa - Fulani , north ) ; Action Group under Beginning of Christian mis- sionary activities in west ( CMS ) ; Roman Catholic mis- sions begin in 1860s , especially active in east . Novels in Hausa and Yoruba published . Awolowo ...
... Hausa - Fulani north , headed by Waziri Ibrahim ) ; People's Redemp- tion Party ( northern , most radical party , headed by Aminu Kano ) . NPN minority government , in shaky coalition with NPP . Obvious weakness of coalition gov ...
... Hausa officers stage coup under Major General Ibrahim Babangida , who heads Armed Forces Ruling Council ( successor to SMC ) and assumes title of president . Failed countercoup in December . Babangida initiates Structural Ad- justment ...
... Hausa city - states in the early nineteenth century , establishing the Fulani Empire , otherwise known as the Caliphate of Sokoto . By 1830 the caliphate con- trolled most of northern Nigeria , reaching as far south as Ilorin in Yoruba ...
Contents
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CHAPTER 2 The Nigerian Fiction Complex | 26 |
CHAPTER 3 Nigerian Novels | 120 |
CHAPTER 4 Capturing the Past and Inventing the Future | 269 |
APPENDIX A Nigerian novels | 275 |
APPENDIX B Nigerian authors | 288 |
APPENDIX C Coding forms | 292 |
NOTES | 297 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 323 |
INDEX | 333 |
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Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria Wendy Griswold No preview available - 2000 |