Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people's lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide's Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide's contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a "second generation" writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria's Niger Delta area.      

Tanure Ojaide is Frank Porter Graham Professor in the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, USA.

Introduction                                                                                                                

1. The Black Nationalist Movement in Azania                                                           

2. BC and its Fortunes After 1976                                                                                           

3. BC in the Postapartheid Era                                                                                                                                 

4. Some Considerations in a Youth Political Movement                    

5. Youth Politics, Agency and Subjectivity                                                                                                     

6. The Social Construction of Blackness in Azania                                                     

7. The Black Middle Class and Black Struggles                                                                                              

8. Culture and History in the Black Struggles for Liberation                                                 

9. Collaboration, Complicity and "Selling - Out" 

In South Africa Historiography                                                                                   

10. Transference and Re (de) placement and

The edge Towards a Postcolonial Conundrum                                                                                                                                              

11. The Idea of the Nation in South Africa, 1940 to post 1994: 

Conceptualisations from the Black Liberation Movement                                                                                                                

12. Symbols, Symbolism and the New Social Order