Description: An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.
Brief description: Abimbola Adelakun is Assistant Professor in the Department of African/African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is co-editor, with Toyin Falola, of Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora (2018). She is also the author of Under the Brown Rusted Roofs (2008) and writes a weekly column for PUNCH Newspapers.
Review Quotes: "At over three hundred close-packed pages it is a very substantial work and likely henceforth to form the cornerstone of Achebe studies and to be of importance to African cultural studies more widely." --Research in African Literatures