CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE 21 Black Classic Press An Intellectual history of considerable

An Intellectual history of considerable subtlety and richness

Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks

and daring

Publisher : Greek Professor (April 16

CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE 21 Black Classic Press An Intellectual history of considerableAfrican authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue have exposed a grim reality of cruelty, harshness, parental (particularly paternal) egocentrism and extraordinary bruisings of the vulnerable child psyche. Camara Laye may have portrayed a paradise state but