African Studies Review, December 1st, 2003
Simon Gikandi. Encyclopaedia of African Literature. New York: Routledge, 2003. xv + 629 pp. Index. $150.00. Cloth.
Early scholars of African literature still remember how welcome Hans Zell's Readers' Guide to African Literature (1972) was in this new field of criticism. Since then, African literature has become an established discipline, and the need for reliable reference works on all levels is even greater. Simon Gikandi's Encyclopaedia of African Literature now provides a comprehensive source of information on the literature of the entire continent, ranging geographically from the Mediterr...
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