ALT 35: Focus on Egypt

ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). Chiji Akọma is Professor of English and Chair of Global Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Villanova University. His works include (co-ed with Nduka Otiono), Oral Literary Performance in Africa: Beyond Text (2021). ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). Nduka Otiono is a writer, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University. He is the author and co-editor of eight books of creative writing and academic research, including His works include (co-ed with Chiji Akoma) Oral Literary Performance in Africa: Beyond Text (2021). Razinat T. Mohammed is Professor of English and Literary Studies at the University of Abuja. The award-winning author of A Love Like a Woman's and other Stories (2006), her publications also include Intra-gender Relations between Women: A Study of Nawal El-Saadawi and Buchi Emecheta's Novel (2012).

• Foreword - Nawal El SaadawiEditorial Article: "Is Egypt in Africa, Professor?" - Ernest N. EmenyonuCoping with a Failed Revolution: Basma Abdel, Aziz Nael Eltoukhy, Mohammed Rabie & Yasmine el Rasgidi - John C. HawleyThe Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee's Metro - James M. HodappThe Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee's Metro - Deema NasserNarratives of the "Nubian Awakening": Reclaiming Egypt's African Identity - Christine GilmoreFrantz Fanon's Conceptualization of Decolonization in Sonallah Ibrahim's The Committee - Temitope Abisoye NoahRomance as Epistemological Aesthetic in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif - F. Fiona MoollaLiterature as Prophecy: Re-Reading Yusuf Idris's The Cheapest Nights - Eunice NgongkumTravel & Discovery: Hopes for a New Egypt in Mohamed Salmawy's Butterfly Wings - Kelvin N. TohThe Symbolic Relevance of the Use of the Eye in Nawal El Saadawi's Two Women in One & God Dies by the Nile - Razinat Talatu MohammedAfrican Epics: A Comparative Study of Sundiata & Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah - Khalid Abouel-lailConversations with Nawal El Saadawi: Feminism, Dissidence, Patriarchy & Contemporary Egyptian Literature. Online Interview - Nawal El SaadawiFEATURED ARTICLES - Little Magazines & the Development of Modern African Poetry - Mathias Iroro OrheroLocating African and Diaspora Literature in the Global Context - Tomi AdeagaThe Postcolonial Writer & the Existential Ordeal - Nduka OtionoLITERARY SUPPLEMENT - "My Mother (Nawal El Saadawi)" - poem - Mona Helmy"And the Stars Beckoned" - short story - Nadia Wassef"Hijack in Hurghada" - travelogue - Razinat Talatu Mohammed"Childless" - short story - Kalapi Sen"The President's Change Agent" - short story - Akachi EzeigboIn Memoriam: Professor Isidore O. Okpewho, 1941-2016 - Chiji AkomaReviews [Edited by Obi Nwakanma]