World and I, October 1st, 2000
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 of Fiction (1993) with Roberta Rubenstein. This article is adapted from a chapter in his forthcoming book, The Ordeal of the African Writer (Zed Books, 2001). Although Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe has become the best-known African writer and Things Fall Apart (1958) the most widely read piece of African ficti...
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