The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English since 1945

In terms of structure and content, the guide works through a comprehensive list of leading East African writers, while at the same time registering a sensitive grasp of major thematic concerns, and historical and literary trajectories that have shaped the cultural life of the region. I sometimes found the structure adopted here rather confusing, especially in the manner in which it shifts from a consideration of individual writers to an examination of disparate thematic and literary movements without any clear ordering system at work; for a general guide, I found this frustrating.