5 - ‘The Orange Revolution’

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Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature by James Currey. James Currey Ltd/ Wits University Press/ Ohio University Press/ Weaver. Press/ East African Educational Publishers Ltd/ HEBN Ltd/. Mkuki na Nyota, 2008, paperback, 318 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84701-502-0

In Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & The Launch of African Literature, Currey provides a rich narrative of the emergence of the African Writers Series as part of Heinemann Educational Books and of the authors that were published in the series. In addition, he provides insight into the historical contexts of the works, brief synopses of the contents of the works themselves, excerpts from reports by readers, pre- and post-publication correspondence with authors and, even more interestingly, descriptions of the active literary scene of 1960s and 70s London, where it all began. Readers of Africa Writes Back have the opportunity to revisit imaginatively the times in which the bulk of what is called African literature today was conceived and produced...