Encyclopedia of African Literature. (Books).(Book Review)

African Business | March 1, 2003 | Copyright

EDITED BY SIMON GIKANDI

[pounds sterling]95 Routledge-Taylor & Francis Books

ISBN 0-415-23019-5

Simon Gikandi explains that one of the key challenges facing him in editing this encyclopaedia was the range of criteria to be used in the selection of entries, given the extensive cultural geography of Africa and its complex literary and linguistic traditions.

Recognising that previous editors of similar reference works have tended either to limit themselves to one or another of Africa's languages (major African languages, Arabic, Anglophone, ...

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