“This is a seminal work on the criticism of African Literature whose novel theoretical and ideological approaches are bound to compel a re-thinking and re-examination of popular concepts, pedagogies, and research methodologies. Even a scholar with a dissenting view on any aspect of Salami-Boukari’s critical assertions or positions, cannot help but appreciate unreservedly, the enormous originality and resourcefulness evident in the author’s intellectual vibrancy and profundity. Not since the Troika’s Toward the Decolonization of African Literature (1980) has anything so refreshingly engaging, potentially controversial, and confi dently challenging, been published on the criticism of African Literature. Safoura Salami-Boukari may have begun consciously or unconsciously, a new trend!”
