Cyprian Ekwensi (born 1921) was a Nigerian writer who stressed description of the locale and whose episodic style was particularly well suited to the short story. Cyprian Odiatu Duaka Ekwensi was born at Minna in Northern Nigeria on September 26, 1921....

Cyprian Ekwensi is a Nigerian writer who deserves patient reading and careful review. He is frequently relegated to the background by critics, spurned by some and ignored by a few. Many a critic has made his debut by "shooting down" Ekwensi. It is...

Charles R. Larson is professor of literature at American University in Washington, D.C., and the fiction and book editor of Worldview. Larson's books include The Emergence of African Fiction (1972); he edited the anthology Under African Skies: Modern Stories (1997) and coedited Worlds...

Ancient and Medieval Cyprian the Bishop. By J. Patout Burns, Jr. (London and New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xi, 240. $29.95 paperback.) Burns's monograph is concentrated on the development of the theology of Cyprian in the middle of the third century, especially of...