Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in
contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including …

This paper considers the performance of postcolonial spatiality in Teju Cole’s 2011 novel,
Open City. Arguing against theoretical positions which view the production of postcolonial …

This paper examines the construction of national commitment in third generation African
literature through a comparative reading of Binyavanga Wainaina’s literary memoir, One Day I …

This Element explores the mechanisms through which'African literature', as a market category,
has been consecrated within the global literary field. Drawing on archival, textual and field…

This paper examines the role of closure, or the lack thereof, in four contemporary Nigerian
novels. Representative of the third wave of Nigerian literature, these narratives each deals …

This article considers the intersection of ethics, responsibility, and literature through readings
of Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Dave Eggers’ What Is the What. Examining …

Madhu Krishnan retraces how Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart helped inaugurate
contemporary African literature as we know it, and examines the ways that contemporary African …

This article examines the ways in which literary representations of the sacred feminine have
shifted and evolved in anglophone Nigerian-Igbo literature. Beginning with an examination …

This paper presents a study comparing the coding efficiency performance of three video
codecs: (a) the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) Bench Mark Set 1 (BMS1); (b) AV1 codec of the …

This paper presents a study comparing the coding efficiency performance of three video
codecs: (a) the Versatile Video Coding (VVC); (b) AV1 codec of the Alliance for Open Media (…