The Treatment of Minority Rights in African Literature in Selected Texts

Abstract

The eleven articles in this volume cover a wide variety of the minority issues in African Literature. Two articles deal with materials from oral texts, namely Narratives and Songs, two others handle Ngozi Adichie’s texts – Purple Hibiscus and The Thing Around Your Neck – while Achebe comes in with Things Fall Apart, Oyono with Houseboy, as Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood, Farah’s Close Sesame, Chikwava’s Harare North and Wanner’s London, Cape Town, Joburg also earn a prominent place in focusing on minorities. Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea, Meja Mwangi’s The Last Plague, and Noadia Muthoni Gachanja Likimani’s autobiography Fighting Without Ceasing too receive substantial attention from researchers in this volume, while the film subsector receives its fair share of analysis from the article by Waliaula et al. From the oral to the written, from the 1960’s to our contemporary times, from West to South to East Africa, not forgetting the diaspora, this volume comprehensively tackles the thorny subject of minority issues in African literature, and opens up space for more research in this area.