Politics & social justice / editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu.

Includes bibliographical references.

The novel as an oral narrative performance: the delegitimization of the Postcolonial Nation in Ngūgī wa Thiong'o's Matigari Ma Nijrūūngi -- Abiku in Ben Okri's imagination of nationhood: a metaphorical interpretation of Colonial-Postcolonial politics -- Refracting the political: Binyavanga Wainaina's One Day I Will Write About this Place -- Ayi Kwei Armah's The Revolutionaries: exoteric fiction, the common people & social change in Post-Colonial Africa - a critical review -- In quest of social justice: politics & women's participation in Irene Isoken Salami's More Than Dancing -- Breaking the laws in J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus - philosophy & the notion of justice -- The rhetoric & caricature of social justice in Post-1960 Africa: a logical positivist reading of Ngūgī wa Thiong'o's Matigari -- "Manhood" in Isidore Okpewho's The Last Duty: authenticity or accountability? -- Remembering Kofi Awoonor (13 March 1935-21 September 2013) -- Kofi Awoonor: In Retrospect -- Kofi Awonor: Poem for a Mentor & Friend -- Looking death in the eye: the human condition, morbidity & mortality in Kofi Awoonor's poetry -- Eulogy for an artist, a statesman, a teacher & friend: Kofi Awoonor -- Postcolonial trauma & the poetics of remembering the novels of Kofi Awoonor -- Song for Nyidevu.