Tongue and Mother Tongue: African Literature and the Perpetual Quest for Identity.(Book Review)

World Literature Today | July 1, 2003| | Copyright

Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith & Daniel P. Kunene, eds. Trenton, New Jersey / Asmara, Eritrea. Africa World Press. 2002. 216 pages. $21.95. ISBN 0-86543-995-8 (996-6 paper)

TONGUE AND MOTHER TONGUE is a volume of selected papers whose aim is to inform readers about literature written in African languages and to discuss ways and means of motivating Africans, young and old, to discover their cultures by reading about them in their own spoken languages and dialects. Since literature is said to be relevant to every major aspect of development in African countries, then it ...

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