Of Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers
Acknowledgments Introduction by Femi Ojo-Ade Africa and America: A Question of Continuities, Cleavage, and Dreams Deferred by Femi Ojo-Ade W.E.B. Du Bois: The Man and His Vision of Africa for Africans by F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam Langston Hughes and Africa by Eddie Omotayo Asgill Richard Wright: A Dubious Legacy by Chimalum Nwankwo Claude McKay: The Tragic Solitude of an Exiled Son of Africa by Femi Ojo-Abe Another African Artist's Wayward Thoughts on Eugene Redmond's Poetry by Tess Onwueme Branches of the Same Tree: African and African-American Poetry by Tanure Ojaide Notions and Nuances: Africa in the Works of James Baldwin by Ezenwa Ohaeto Reviewing Gloria Naylor: Toward a Neo-African Critique by Vincent Odamtten Creative African Memory: Some Oral Sources of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon by Ousseynou Traore The Circle of Meaning: Paule Marshall, Modernism and the Masks of History by Simon Gikandi Homesick and Eurocentric? Alice Walker's Africa by MWikali Kieti "I is": Toni Morrison, the Past and Africa by Chimalum Nwankwo Afterword: What's in a Name? by Femi Ojo-Ade