Part One: Decolonizing Language -- Decolonizing Education -- The Body of Knowledge -- Between Enslavement and Empowerment -- The Magic Fountain -- The Modern Patron: The Role of the University in a Global Community -- Makerere Dreams -- Part Two: Voices of Prophecy -- Abdilatif Abdalla and The Voice of Prophecy -- Chinua Achebe: The Spirit Lives -- The Global Kenyan: A Tribute to Ali Mazrui -- Mazrui and Achebe: The Literary Artist and the Political Scientist -- Wole Soyinka: The Conscience of Africa -- Mı̃cere Mũgo: In Kenyan History, Literature, and Thought -- Grace Ogot: My Literary Sister, Kenya's Literary Star -- Nadine Gordimer: A Tribute from a Kindred Spirit -- The Three Js: Jomo, Jaramogi and "James" -- Mandela Memories: An African Prometheus -- Mandela Comes Home -- Henry Chakava: A Model of Development in Africa -- Call Her Molara O: Pioneer in Dialectical African Feminism -- The African Writer as a Prophet and Social Critic in Contemporary Times

"A series of essays on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism"-- Provided by publisher