1. James Currey, Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature (Oxford: James Currey, 2008), p. 28.
2. See, for example, Fraser, pp. 88–99; Gareth Griffiths, African Literatures in English: East and West (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000);
3. Patrick Williams, ‘West African Writing’, in Writing and Africa, ed. by Mpalive-Hangson Msiska and Paul Hyland (Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997), pp. 31–45 (pp. 31–3).
4. Chinua Achebe, Hopes and Impediments (New York: Anchor Books, 1988), p. 45.
5. Henry Louis Gates, Jr, ‘Criticism in the Jungle’, in Black Literature and Literary Theory, ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr (New York: Methuen, 1984), pp. 1–25 (p. 5).