The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English since 1945

A begins with aiDS/HiV, telling us how writers, especially women, dealt with it. other titles are: autobiography; Black aesthetic; christianity and christian Missions; colonialism; cultural Nationalism; Decolonization; Education and Literacy; Ethnicity and Ethnic Literatures; Gender and Feminist criticism; Journals [and their importance in the growth of East african literature]; Language Question [exempli- fied in Ngugi wa Thiong?o, whose later novels cannot be discussed because they were written in Gikuyu]; Literary Theory and criticism; Nation and Nationalism; Newspapers and Mass Media; Novel; oral Literature and Performance (orature); Poetry and Poetics; Popular culture; Popular Literature; Precolonial Society; Publishing; Theater and Performance; Urbanization and the Rural. Brave New cosmos,? the first play on BBC African Theatre by an East african, included in the volume Origin East Africa (1965) edited by David cook, not, as stated, by David cook and David Rubadiri, though they did co-edit Poems from East Africa (1971). one letter is missing in charles Sarvan and one is incorrect in Olatubosun ogunsanwo, two scholars listed in the entry on me.