Introduction: Background -- John Barth and modern African literature : exhaustion and replenishment -- Michel Foucault and the Urhobo udje oral poetic tradition : madness, power, and resistance -- Losing cultural ground in the global space : Africa's profit and loss in globalization -- Environmentalism in African literature : origins and development -- Love, sex, and sexuality in African folklore and literature -- African literature of advocacy -- The new orality in contemporary African literature -- The present in the everlasting : overcoming contemporaneity in African poetry -- Literature and political leadership in Africa -- Theorizing modern/contemporary African literature -- Conclusion: Towards a new African literature in a global age
