Africa Writes Back

James Currey

17 June 1958 was the date of publication of the hardback of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This provided the impetus for the foundation of the paperback African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as its Editorial Adviser. Africa Writes Back draws liberally on the correspondence with authors, and concentrates on the adventurous first twenty-five years of the Heinemann African Writers Series. ‘The text is teeming with people: not just the writers, but with the managers of the AWS branches in comment and advice on proposals, drafts and manuscripts in a spirit of astonishing good will, all doing their best according to their situation to foster the growth African literature.’ – Clive Wake, Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury ‘It is worth the price of the book for the chapter on “Publishing Dambudzo Marechera” alone.’ – Bernth Lindfors, Emeritus Professor of African Literature, University of Texas at Austin.

ISBN: 1 77922 075 2
pp. 318; 234 x 156 mm