This is a seminal work on the criticism of African Literature whose novel theoretical and
ideological approaches are bound to compel a re-thinking and re-examination of popular
concepts, pedagogies, and research methodologies. Even a scholar with a dissenting view
on any aspect of Salami-Boukari's critical assertions or positions, cannot help but appreciate
unreservedly, the enormous originality and resourcefulness evident in the author's intellectual
vibrancy and profundity. Not breitling replica since the Troika's Toward the Decolonization of African Literature
(1980) has anything so refreshingly engaging, potentially controversial, and con? dently
challenging, been published on the criticism of African Literature. Safoura Salami-Boukari
may have begun consciously or unconsciously, a new trend!"
-ERNEST N. EMENYONU, PROFESSOR OF AFRICANA STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-FLINT, USA
…students, scholars, and general readers wishing to consider issues of gender in relation
to African cultural and socioeconomic systems and what Salami-Boukari interrogates and
names as an "African worldview," will ? nd the interdisciplinary discussion of historical
analyses, literary criticism and gender discourses a useful method for rolex replica engaging contemporary
African perspectives.
African Literature: Gender Discourse, Religious Values, and the African Worldview is an engrossing,
deeply instructive work that will become a must-read for general readers as well as
those in a wide range of academic ? elds, including African studies, black diasporic literatures,
history, and gender studies.
-ALEXIS DE VEAUX, PH.D., DEPARTMENT OF TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO, BUFFALO NEW YORK, USA
[This Book] offers a series of fresh insights into most of the old "problematics" which used
to sustain the interpretations of African literature, especially by women. Her gender sensitive
reading … will, most de? nitely, create in replica watches both students and teachers of the discipline … a new
interest in the creative writings from the black Continent.
-KOMLA MESSAN NUBUKPO, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF LOMÉ, TOGO
Born in Togo, Dr. Safoura A. Salami-Boukari Studied in Togo, France
and the United States. She holds a Ph.D., and MA in American
Studies with a concentration in Global Women's Studies from the State
University of New York (SUNY at Buffalo). She has taught at the
University of Benin (1987-1994), the State University of New York in
Buffalo (1996-1998), and was a Visiting Professor in the Center for
Women's Studies, and a Research Consultant at the Center for Black
Culture & Research at West Virginia University (Morgantown-1998-2000). She is currently teaching Social Studies and Humanities in the
College of Arts and Sciences at Western Illinois University in Macomb.
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