Foreword | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
Talking Drums and Dancing Masks: Introducing Margaret Laurence's Long Drums and Cannons | |
Nigerian Literature Then and Now | |
Long Drums and Cannons | p. 1 |
Preface | p. 11 |
Voices of Life, Dance of Death: Wole Soyinka | p. 15 |
Rituals of Destiny: John Pepper Clark | p. 71 |
The Thickets of Our Separateness: Chinua Achebe | p. 89 |
A Twofold Forest: Amos Tutuola | p. 113 |
Masks of the City: Cyprian Ekwensi | p. 133 |
Other Voices | p. 151 |
T. M. Aluko | p. 152 |
Elechi Amadi | p. 158 |
Nkem Nwankwo | p. 164 |
Flora Nwapa | p. 166 |
Onuora Nzekwu | p. 169 |
Gabriel Okara | p. 171 |
Epilogue | p. 177 |
List of Works | p. 183 |
General Bibliography | p. 187 |
Index | p. 189 |
Annotations | p. 193 |
Glossary | p. 213 |
Tribalism As Us Versus Them | p. 223 |
App. I: Bibliographical and Biographical Information on the Writers | p. 233 |
Civil War in Nigeria | p. 267 |
Ethnic Groups Discussed in Long Drums and Cannons | p. 269 |
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