What is it about?
This book review essay on Prof Toyin Falola’s Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project offers an early exposition insight into the newly published critical volume. The review shows a critical reader’s reception and perspective on long-established conversations on Nigerian literary tradition as interrogated and reflected upon by Falola.
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Why is it important?
The essay catalyzes multiple literary-critical interpellations from potential readers who may include teachers and critics of African and Black literature, students in the literary discipline and people of the academia, within a potentially wide readership.
Perspectives
This book review essay gives an opportunity for readers to appreciate why Falola's volume is a promising read.
Abiodun Bello
University of Southern Mississippi
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This page is a summary of: Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project, written by Toyin Falola, African and Asian Studies, September 2022, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341562.
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