West Africa

A Bibliography of West African Life and Literature comp Elaine Saint-Andre-Utudjian 148 African Studies Assn (Waltham, Mass) pa.

A Guide to the Study of Liberian Literature: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide Containing Books, Pamphlets, Articles, Periodicals, and Libraries with Information for the Study of the Literature of the West African Republic of Liberia H.S. Cordor 82 Liberian Lit Stud Prog (Monrovia) 1971.

Libri XXVII I (Copenhagen) contains pp 1-8 'Sources of West African Studies: Some Non-alphabetic Writings of West Africa' B. Amaeshi.

Amissah, G.H. Africa Speaks Aloud 12 U of Ghana Bkshop (Legon) 1975 ¢0.25. (Gh)

- The Living Echoes of Kwame Nkrumah 12 U of Ghana Bkshop (Legon) 1975 ¢I.50. (Gh)

Azasu, K. Streams of Thought 105 U of Ghana Bkshop (Legon) 1974 ¢2.50. (Gh)

Kayper-Mensah, A. Sankofa: Adinkra Poems 36 Ghana Publg Corp (Accra) 1976 ¢I.20. (Gh)

Kyei K.G. and H. Schreckbenbach No Time to Die 80 U of Ghana Bkshop ( Legon) 1976 ¢7.00. (Gh)

Ojo-Ade, F. 'Fourteenth Street D.C.', 'New Breed', 'Liberation' Ba Shiru VIII I 41, 61-2 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals). (N)

Okogie, M.O. The God Indwelling Stockwell (Ilfracombe, Devon). (N)

Soyinka, Wole Ogun Abibiman 24 Rex Collings £I.50. (N)

Amadi, Elechi Peppersoup and The Road to Ibadan 76 Onibonoje (Ibadan ) NI.00. (N)

Donkor, W. A Stab in My Heart 72 U of Ghana Bkshop (Legon) ¢2.00. (Gh)

Ephson, I.S. Murder at the Palace 179 U of Ghana Bkshop (Legon) 1976 ¢5.00. (Gh)

Okeke, E. Veronica the Girl 86 Univ Publ ( Enugu, Nigeria) 0.65. (N)

Omotoso, Kole The Curse 32 New Horn (Ibadan , Nigeria) 1976 0.75. (N)

— Shadows in the Horizon 44 U of Ife Bkshop (Ile Ife, Nigeria) 0.75.

Osofisan, Femi The Chattering and the Song: A Play New Horn ( Ibadan) 1976 0.75. (N)

Safo, D.B. The Search 76 Onibonoje ( Ibadan) I.25. (N)

Sofola, Zulu The Sweet Trap 76 OUP (Ibadan) I.30. (N)

Rotimi, Ola Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again 86 OUP (Ibadan) I.50. (N)

Aidoo, Ama Ata Our Sister Killjoy 134 Longman 1976 £0.95. (Gh)

—' Nowhere Cool' Asemka 4 (1976) 99-112 (see Journals).

Aidoo, O.K. Saworbeng 52 Ghana Publg Corp (Accra) ¢3.50; short stories. (Gh)

Aniebo, I.N.C. 'Of Wives, Talismans and the Dead' Ufahamu VII 2 143-54 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals). (N)

—' Happy Survival, Brother' Ufahamu VII 3 175-99.

Appiah, Peggy A Dirge Too Soon Ghana Publg Corp (Accra) ¢3.75. (Gh)

Ashong-Katai, S. Confessions of a Bastard and Other Stories Ghana Publg Corp (Accra). (Gh)

Essandoh, D.K. Happy Birthday and Other Stories 64 Ghana Publg Corp ( Accra) ¢I.75. (Gh)

Nsanda, E. The Good Foot 149 CUP (Ibadan) 2.90. (N)

Nwapa, Flora 'Ada' Black Orpheus III 4 (1976) 20-30; Chap I of unpbld novel of that name. (N)

Ogali, Ogali O. Coal City 126 Fourth Dimension (Enugu, Nigeria) 2.00. (N)

Ojo-Ade, F. 'Wives, Lovers and Intellectuals' Ba Shiru VIII I 57-61 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals). (N)

Onyeama, D. Juju Satellite Books £7.00. (N)

Black Justice D.O. Umobuarie 196 OUP (Ibadan) 2.50; 3 traditional tales. (N)

Bamgbose, A. Mother Tongue Education: The West African Experience 153 Hodder & Stoughton and UNESCO 1976.

Ike, V.C. University Development in Africa OUP £I7.00.

Kolade, C. 'The Role of the Mass Media in Maintaining and Propagating a Nigerian Cultural Identity' Presence Africaine 95 (1975) 369-93 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

Ilogu, E. 'The Religious Situation in Nigeria Today: A Sociological Analysis ' Présence Africaine 96 (1975) 504-24.

Imoagene, O. 'The Impact of Industrialization and Urbanization on the People of Nigeria' Présence Africaine 96 (1975) 563-91.

Lawal, B. 'The Living and the Dead: Art and Immortality among the Yoruba of Nigeria ' Africa XLVII 50-61 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

Omotoso, Kole. 'What is Worth Preserving' Afriscope VII I 23-5; on cultural revival (see Journals).

Wilmot, P.F. 'Culture and National Liberation' Afriscope VII 2 45,47, 50-51.

Achebe, Chinua Chinua Achebe A. Ravenscroft 46 Longman for British Council £0.40; revised enlarged edn; first pbld I969.

—' Achebe and the English Language' R. Angog Busara VII 2 (1975) I-14. (Nairobi, Kenya).

—' An Approach to Achebe's Fiction' A.R. Gere Africa Quarterly XVI 2 ( 1976) 27-35 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

—' Chinua Achebe in New England: An Interview' W. Lawson Yardbird Reader IV (1975) 99-110 (Berkely, Calif ).

—' Fire and Transition in Things Fall Apart' Bu-Buakei Jabbi Sheffield Papers on Literature and Society I (1976) 64-84 (U of Sheffield, W. Yorkshire). See also JCL XII 3 40.

—' Irony and Vision in Achebe's A Man of the People' C. Maduka Ba Shiru VIII I 19-30 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

— Morning Yet on Creation Day rev D. Izevbaye Nigerian Journal of the Humanities I I 92-4 (see Journals).

—' Politics and the Intellectual Hero: Achebe, Abrahams, Flaubert and Wright ' T.C. Maduka Dissertation Abstracts International XXXVII (1976) 2850A.

—' Pollution and Purification in the Novels and Plays of Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and John Pepper Clark' M.A. Haddad Dissertation Abstracts International XXXVII ( 1976) 964A.

` Post-Independence Disillusionment in Three African Novels' E. Obiechina Neo-African Literature and Culture (1976) 119-46 (see JCL XII 3 9); on Achebe, Armah, Soyinka.

—' The Python Episodes in Achebe's Novels' R.B. McDaniel International Fiction Review III (1976) 100-106 (Fredericton, N.B., Canada).

—'Three West African Novelists: Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka and Ayi Kwei Armah' J.B. Barthold Dissertation Abstracts International XXXVI (1976) 4473A-74A.

— 'The Traditional Satiric Method and Matter of Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe' B.C. McCartney Dissertation Abstracts International XXXVII (1976) 2862A-63A.

—' Things Fall Apart: A Critical Appreciation' M. Rice Crux X 2 (1976) 33-40 (see APPENDIX 2 Journals).

Aluko, T.M. 'Development and Change in the Novels of T.M. Aluko' E.T. Palmer WLWE XV (1976) 279-96 (see COMMONWEALTH: GENERAL Journals).

-His Worshipful Majesty reviewed, O. Taiwo Black Orpheus III 4 (1976) 56-8 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

Armah , Ayi Kwei 'Demonic Imagery and the Apocalyptic Vision in the Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah' R. Priebe Yale French Studies LIII (1976) 102-36 (New Haven, Conn).

—' Fragments: "The Eagle that Refused to Soar"' K. Yankson Asemka I 1 (1974) 53-9.

—' "Griotature" in a Book' T. McKinley Tanzania Notes and Review 77 and 78 (1976) 109-II; on Two Thousand Seasons.

—' Hero-Worshipping in the African Novel: The case of Ayi Kwei Armah and Others ' A. Britwum Asemka 3 (1975) I-18.

—' Larsony or Fiction as Criticism of Fiction' Ayi Kwei Armah Asemka 4 (1976) 1-14; refutation of criticism of his novels by C. Larson.

—'Post-Independence Disillusionment ...' See Ioth Achebe item above.

— Fragments reviewed, C. Abrahams Canadian Journal of African Studies XI 2 355-8.

—' The Characterization of Women in Soyinka and Armah' K. Standt Ba Shiru VIII 2 63-9.

—' The New Way: Ayi Kwei Armah's Two Thousand Seasons' K.H. Petersen WLWE XV (1976) 330-35.

—' Three West African Novelists: Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka and Ayi Kwei Armah ' J.B. Barthold ; see I2th Achebe item above.

- Two Thousand Seasons reviewed, D. Stewart Presence Africaine 96 (1975) Supplement VI.

Awoonor, Kofi The Breast of the Earth reviewed, G.D. Killam The Dalhousie Review LVI (1975) 143-56 (see CANADA Journals).

—' The Trial of Kofi Awoonor' K. Omotoso Afriscope VI II (1976) 37-9 (see Journals).

Beti, Mongo 'Mongo Beti: The Novelist Looks at Independence and the Status of the African Woman' R.P. Smith Jr College Language Association Journal XIX (1976) 301-II (Morgan State College, Blatimore).

—' Narrative Perspectives in Mongo Beti's Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba' F. Lambert Yale French Studies LIII ( 1976) 78-91.

—' The Journey Motif: Vehicle of Form, Structure and Meaning in Mongo Beti's Mission to Kala' C.E. Nnolim Journal of Black Studies VII (1976) 181-94 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

Cesaire, Aime 'Aspects of Imagery and Symbolism in the Poetry of Aime Cesaire' H. Okam Yale French Studies LIII (1976) 175-96.

—' Structural Dynamics in a Third World Classic: Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal' T. Hale Yale French Studies LIII (1976) 163-74.

—' Illusions and Disillusions of a "Been-To": A Down-to-Earth Approach to Aime Cesaire's Notes on a Return to the Nativeland' K.O. Agyeman Asemka I I (1974) 40-52.

Clark, John Pepper 'J.P. Clark's The Raft: The Tragedy of Economic Impotence' R.N. Egudu WLWE XV (1976) 297-304.

—'Pollution and Purification ...' See 9th Achebe item above.

—' Ritual in J.P. Clark's Drama' A. Uyovbukerhi Ba Shiru VII I (1976) 34-43.

Dipoko , Mbella Sonne 'African Tragic and Artistic Spiritualization' B. Tanla-Kishani Présence Africaine 98 (1976) 193-5.

Djoleto, Amu Money Galore reviewed, N. Wilson-Tagore Asemka 3 (1975) 109-II.

Echewa, T. Obinkaram The Land's Lord reviewed, West Africa 3067 (1976) 500 (see Journals).

—' Profile' Interlink: Nigerian-American Magazine 50 26-8.

Ekwensi, Cyprian 'Jagua Nana: Culture Heroine' D. Cosentino Ba Shiru VIII I II-17.

— Survive the Peace reviewed, New Nigerian II April 28 ( Kaduna, Nigeria); and W.R. Ochieng Afriscope VII 8 38.

—' The City as a Force: Three Novels by Cyprian Ekwensi' J. McClusky Journal of Black Studies VII (1976 ) 211-24.

Emecheta, Buchi The Bride Price reviewed, H. Collins World Literature Today LI 3 491; and West Africa 3084 (1976 ) 1145.

Hayford, J.E. Casely Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford: The Man of Vision and Faith L.H. Ofosu-Appiah 31 U of Ghana Bkshop ( Legon) 1975 ¢I.00.

—' Casely Hayford: The Fictive Dimension of African Personality' N. Ugonna Ufahamu VII 2 159-71.

Jeyifo, Biodun. See Ist Omotoso item below.

Kane, Hamidou Cheikh 'Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'Adventure ambique' J.D. Erickson Yale French Studies LIII (1976) 92-101.

—' The Anti-Imperialist Struggle Through Mystical Experience: A Reading of Cheikh Hamidou Kane's L'Aventure ambique' A. Britwum Asemka 3 (1975).

Laye, Camara 'The Debate on Human Rights in Camara Laye's Le regard du roi' R.H. Fraser Asemka 1 (1974) 16-27.

Munonye, John A Dancer of Fortune reviewed, S. Wa Kwayera Afriscope VII 8 41, 43.

Ogunde, Hubert 'Hubert Ogunde: Forty Years on Stage' N. Ujoh Spear (Lagos) (1976) 36-8.

—' Ogunde on Ogunde: Two Autobiographical Statements' B. Lindfors Educational Theatre Journal XXVIII (1976) 239-46.

Ogunmola, Kola 'E.K. Ogunmola: A Personal Memoir' U. Beier Neo-African Literature and Culture (1976) III-18 (see JCL XII 39).

Ogunyemi, Wale Kiriji reviewed, The African Book Publishing Record III 2 96 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Bibliographies Published Serially).

Okara, Gabriel 'Two Levels of Meaning in Gabriel Okara's The Voice' N.C. Goodley College Language Association Journal XIX (1976) 312-17.

Okigbo, Christopher 'Mytho-religious Roots of Modern Nigerian Poetry: Christopher Okigbo - Heavensgate' P. Ndu Greenfield Review V 3 and 4 ( 1976-77) 7-21 (New York).

Okpewho, Isidore The Last Duty reviewed, A. Kern World Literature Today LI 2 321-2.

Omotoso, Kole 'Against the Titans in Nigerian Literature' G. Moore Afriscope VII 7 19-22, 25; on Kole Omotoso, Femi Osofisan , Biodun Jeyifo.

—'Dr. Omotoso: Novelist and Academician' W. Bozimo Spear July 1976 34, 38.

—' The Literary World of Kole Omotoso' W. Bozimo Spear Sep 1976 3 5 -6. -The Curse reviewed , F. Ilesanmi The African Book Publishing Record III 295.

Osofisan, Femi 'Against the Titans' See I st Omotoso item above.

- The Chattering and the Song: A Play reviewed, F. Ilesanmi The African Book Publishing Record III 2 95.

Ouologuem, Yambo 'Theory and History of Marxist Poetics in Yambo Ouologuem's Bound to Violence: A Monologue by Caliban and Prospero' N. Masilela Ufahamu VII 3 92-108.

—' The Unknown Voice of Yambo Ouologuem' E. Sellin Yale French Studies LIII (1976) 137-62.

Oyewole , Fola Reluctant Rebel reviewed, West Africa 3075 (1976) 802.

Oyono, Ferdinand 'Colonial Portraits in a Changing Frame' G. Moore Yale French Studies LIII (1976) 45-63; mainly on Oyono, but also Beti, Ousmane, Ouologuem.

—' The Anticolonialism of Ferdinand Oyono' R. Linneman Yale French Studies LIII (1976) 64-77.

Peters , Lenrie 'Notes of a Writer from Gambia: Recollections of Beverage' L. Peters Lotus 21 (1974) 20-5 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

Soyinka, Wole 'A Little Further along The Road' M. Salt Sheffield Papers on Literature and Society I (1946 ) 144-27.

—' An Assault on Tyranny: Soyinka's Recent Writings' C.F. Dameron Africa Today XXIII 2 ( 1976) 65-7.

—' Cultural Conventions in Soyinka's Art' T. Olafioye Ba Shiru VII I (1976) 67-70.

— Death and the King's Horseman 'Soyinka's New Play' G. Moore West Africa 3105 60-1; review of a performance at U of Ife 17 Dec 1976 .

—' Dramatic Technique and Meaning in The Road' J.N. Amankulor Ba Shiru VII I (1976) 53-8.

—' Dramatic Theory of Wole Soyinka' A.B. Davis Ba Shiru VII I (1976) I-II.

—' Dying Gods: A Study of Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters' L.R. Early JCL XII 2 162-74.

—' "Egbe's Sworn Enemy"; Soyinka's Popular Sport' B. Lindfors Nigerian Journal of the Humanities I 1 67-76 (see Journals).

—' Interview with Prof. Wole Soyinka' Afriscope VI 7 (1976) 39-40.

—' Interview with Wole Soyinka: No Sense of Direction' Afriscope VII I 36-8.

—' Last Flint ... Heart of Patience' O. Dohan Indigo (Lagos) III 5 (1976) 33, 36, 45; III 6 (1976) 15, 17-18 ; on Soyinka's poetry.

— Myth, Literature and the African World reviewed, 'Philosophy of African Literature and Myth' J.N. Amankulor Ufabamu VII 2 15 5-8; and R. Finnegan TLS 5 Aug 966.

— Ogun Abibiman reviewed, West Africa 3II6 603; and 'A Call to Arms' O. Ofeimun Daily Times 14 April 20 (Lagos).

-' Poetics and the Mythic Imagination' S. Macebuh Transition 50 (1975-76) 79-84; mainly on Soyinka's poetry.

—'Post Independence Disillusionment ...' See Ioth Achebe item above.

-' Soyinka and Yoruba Mythology' M.K. Mootry Ba Shiru VII I (1976) 23-32.

—' Soyinka's Black Orpheus' D. Izevbaye Neo-African Literature and Culture (1976) 147-58 (see JCL XII 3 9)-

—' The Form of Discovery in Brother Jero' B.B. Jabbi Obsidian II 3 (1976) 26-33 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

—' The Idyll Sham: Ezra Pound and Nigerian Wole Soyinka on War' R.N. Egudu Paideuma V (1976) 31-41.

—'The Traditional Satiric Method ...' See I3th Achebe item above.

—'Three West African Novelists ... See I2th Achebe item above.

—' Wole Soyinka, When Are you Coming Home?' B. Lindfors Yale French Studies LI (1976) 197-210.

Tutuola, Amos Amos Tutuola: Tradition orale et ecriture du conte M. Dussutour-Hammer 158 Presence Africaine ( Paris) 1976.

—' Ten Years of Tutuola Studies' O. Ogundipe-Leslie African Perspectives 167-76.

—' The Africanness of The Conjure Woman and Feather Wowan of the Jungle' C.O. Ogunyemi Ariel VTII 2 17-30 (see CANADA Journals).

' African Critics and the Western Literary Tradition' R. Bishop Ba Shiru VIII I 65-75 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

' Between the Oral and the Written: Theatre in Ghana and Nigeria' A. Ricard Educational Theatre Journal XXVTII ( 1976) 229-38.

' Literacy as Suicide' F. Osofisan Afriscope VII I 17-18, 21, 23; reply O. Ofeimun 'Criticism as Homicide ' Afriscope VII 6 31-2; reply F. Osofisan 'Criticism as Homicide' Afriscope VII 8 36, 38 (see Journals).

' Literature and the Nigerian Civil War' I. Ikkideh Présence Africaine 98 (1976) 162-74 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

' Mechanism and Meaning in Yoruba Ijala' O. Sekoni Ba Shiru VIII I 31-6.

' Militancy and Irony: The Mood of West African Poetry in the Seventies' T. Knipp Ba Shiru VIII I 43-55.

'Oral Tradition and the Contemporary Theatre in Nigeria' J.A. Adedeji Lotus 22 (1974) 131-41 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

' Sierra Leone: Hledani Krasne Prozy' V. Klima Svetora literature XXI 2 ( 1976) 216-53; search for belles-lettres.

' Some Cameroon Authors in the African Writers Series of Heinemann Educational Books Ltd,' M.W. Delancey Bulletin So Assoc Africanists IV 1 (1976) 36-9.

' Sources of the People's Theatre in West Africa' P. Pariscy Narody Azii i Afriki II (1974) 118-26; popular and traditional drama; in Russian with English summary.

' Theatre Development in Sierra Leone' B.I. Warritay Nigeria Magazine I 19 (1976) 35-6 (see Journals).

' Theatre in Nigeria: The Modern vs The Traditional' O.O. Enekwe Yalel Theatre VIII I (1976) 62-6.

' The Dramatic Limits of Igbo Ritual' M.J.C. Echeruo 75-85 Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literature ed B. Lindfors , Three Continents (Washington D.C.).

' The Indigenization of English: Rhetoric in Modern Nigerian Literature' R. Wren Black Orpheus III 4 (1976) 44-56 (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals).

' The Middle Society: Five Orientations towards Husband-Wife Roles in West African Novels' J.A. Moore 85-100 Seminar Papers on African Studies African Studies & Research Prog Howard U (Washington D.C.) 1974.

' The West African Novel Since I9II' F. Michelman Yale French Studies LIII (1976) 29-44.

'The Western Scar: The Theme of the Been-to in West African Fiction' W.V. Lawson Dissertation Abstracts International XXXVI (1976) 6084A-85A.

' Yoruba Theatre in Ibadan: Performance and Urban Social Process' J.H. Smith Dissertation Abstracts International XXXVI (1976) 6784A.

Afriscope VII I-12, P.M.B. III9, Yaba, Nigeria. Annual sub N5.00.

Asemka 4, Literary Journal of U of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, ¢I.00.

Nigeria Magazine 120, Cultural Division, Federal Ministry of Information, P.M.B. I2524, Lagos. Annual sub NI.00.

Nigerian Journal of the Humanities I I, Faculty of Arts, U of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria N5.00.

West Africa 3104-3154, Daily Times of Nigeria, Apapa, Lagos; weekly.

Ba Shiru VIII I (see AFRICA: GENERAL Journals) devoted to West African literature.