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African women writers have come a long way from the sixties when they were hardly acknowledged or noticed as serious writers. In the past four decades their works have been steadily rising in quantity and quality. Today these writers are seriously redefining images of womanhood, providing new visions, and reshaping erstwhile distorted characterizations of African women in fiction. The rapid upsurge of writing by African women has been one of the most dynamic, phenomenal trends of African literature at the end of the twentieth century.

Littérature africaine --- Femmes écrivains africaines

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This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the African diaspora: from Equiano's autobiography in 1789 to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 novel Americanah. African literature has represented returnees in a range of locations and dislocations including having a sense of belonging, being alienated in a country they can no longer recognize, or experiencing a multiple sense of place. Contributors, writing on literature from the 1970s to the present, examine the extent to which the original place can be reclaimed with or without renegotiations of "home".

GUEST EDITORS: HELEN COUSINS, Reader in Postcolonial Literature at Newman University, Birmingham, UK; PAULINE DODGSON-KATIYO, Head of English at Newman University, Birmingham, UK.

Series Editor: Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma

African literature --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Return migration in literature. --- History and criticism. --- ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction: African Literature Today. --- African authors. --- African diaspora. --- African literature. --- Belonging. --- Guest Editors: Helen Cousins. --- Home. --- Identity. --- Migration. --- Multiple sense of place. --- Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo. --- Protagonist returns. --- Sense of belonging. --- Space. --- diaspora. --- homeland. --- identity. --- literary returns. --- migration.

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Thematology --- African literature

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Africa's encounter with the West and its implications and consequences remain far-reaching and enduring in the craft and thrust of its creative writers. The contributors to ALT 33 analyse the connections between traditional stories and myths that have been told to children, as well as the work of contemporary creative writers who are writing for children in order that they understand this complex history. Some of these writers are developing traditional myths, folk tales, and legends and are writing them in new forms, while others focus on the encounter with the West that has dominated much modern African literature for adults.
The previous neglect of the cultural significance, study, criticism and teaching of children's literature is addressed in this volume: How can the successes and/or failures of stories and story-telling for children in Africa be measured? Are there models to be followed and what makes them models? What is the relationship between the text and the illustration of children's books? What should guide the reader or critic of children's literature coming out of Africa - globalism, transculturality or internal regionalism? What problems confront teachers, students, publishers and promoters of children's books in Africa? Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA; the editorial board is composed of scholars from US, UK and African universities.Obi Nwakanma is now Reviews Editor for the series HEBN: Nigeria.

Children's literature, African --- Children's literature, African (English) --- Children's literature, African (French) --- Storytelling in literature. --- History and criticism. --- African children's literature (French) --- Children's literature, French --- African literature (French) --- African children's literature (English) --- Children's literature, English --- African literature (English) --- African children's literature --- African literature --- Folk literature, African --- Authors, African --- African authors --- 1900-2099 --- African Literature. --- Children's Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Cultural Significance. --- Gender. --- Story-telling. --- Teaching. --- Themes.