Preface
Introduction
Social Experience, Commitment, and Essence
Chapter 1: Oral Literature
Chapter 2: The Written Text of the Pre-Colonial
Chapter 3: The Colonial Era
Chapter 4: Apartheid, Settler-Colonialism, and Southern Africa
Chapter 5: The Negritude Movement and African Rehabilitation
Chapter 6: Print Media and Popular Literature
Chapter 7: The Language Debate
Chapter 8: Postcolonial Realities
Chapter 9: Migration Literature
Chapter 10: The Digital Age
Conclusion: African Literature: Methodological Reflections and Pushing the Frontiers of Research
Index
Biography
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the recipient of many distinguished accolades and awards, including nineteen honorary doctorates.
‘With Milestones in African Literature, Falola can be said to have scored another bull’s eyes. This is a book that is a rich resource for students of literature, history, sociology in fact, humanities in general. The author has deployed his expertise as a historian to write a book that one finds entertaining and educative and rich in gems knowledge.’ - Olayinka Oyegbile, Naija Times, September 2024
