Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors

Like its companion volume, African Writers and Their Readers is a magnificent and monumental tribute to Bernth Lindfors, the scholar who transformed African literary studies in North America... The quality of scholarship that has gone into these essays and their range of cultural and historical reference is perhaps one of the most vocal testaments to the significance of the Lindfors factor in African literary scholarship' - Simon Gikandi, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan'