The Combat

Although they have already achieved so much, Achebe, at 42, and Soyinka, at 39, are both, as writers go, relatively young men. Yet a new generation of writers who are quite clearly their heirs is already at work. Kole Omotoso, with his first novel, The Edifice, displays a mature freedom of form and style which can only come from a total confidence in his cultural position. That he should have brought it off so convincingly is a measure of how far African literature ... >Voir plus