Contemporary African Novel

Culture-clash is the most predominant theme of the contemporary African fiction. Highlighting this aspect, the present book takes up for detailed study the novels of T.M. Aluko and Cyprian Ekwensi, and to some extent the novels of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka as part of the comparative framework. Trapped between tradition and modernity, the protagonists of all these writers undergo a great mental trauma in their quest for identity before they affirm themselves. Constructing this paradigm, the Author has offered a lucid exposition of what may be called the quintessential theme of the African novel.