Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan–Flint, USA.

• 1. The Need for a Literary History 2. Igbo Literary Origins 3. Minstrelsy in Traditional Igbo Society: Remembering a Pioneer Legend—Israel Nwaọba Njemanze (Alias Israel Nwaọba) 4. From Voice to Text: Missionary Influence on the Development of Igbo Orthography and Written Igbo Literature 5. Early Fiction in Igbo—The Pioneers 6. The Crisis of Standardization of Written (Literary) Igbo Language: Pioneer Efforts of F.C. Ogbalu: Founder and Architect, Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture (SPILC) 7. On the Threshold of Another Blackout: A New Controversy over the Standardization of Written (Literary) Igbo 8. Chinua Achebe and the Problematics of Writing in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Towards a Resolution of the Igbo Language Predicament 9. The Female Voice—Rebuttal and Response to Patriarchy: Julie Onwuchekwa’s Chinaagọrọm (1983) 10. Tony Uchenna Ubesie: The Quintessential Igbo Novelist 11. Interviews with Two Major Igbo Novelists: J.U.T Nzeako and Chinedu Ofomata

Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan–Flint, USA.

• 1. The Need for a Literary History 2. Igbo Literary Origins 3. Minstrelsy in Traditional Igbo Society: Remembering a Pioneer Legend—Israel Nwaọba Njemanze (Alias Israel Nwaọba) 4. From Voice to Text: Missionary Influence on the Development of Igbo Orthography and Written Igbo Literature 5. Early Fiction in Igbo—The Pioneers 6. The Crisis of Standardization of Written (Literary) Igbo Language: Pioneer Efforts of F.C. Ogbalu: Founder and Architect, Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture (SPILC) 7. On the Threshold of Another Blackout: A New Controversy over the Standardization of Written (Literary) Igbo 8. Chinua Achebe and the Problematics of Writing in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Towards a Resolution of the Igbo Language Predicament 9. The Female Voice—Rebuttal and Response to Patriarchy: Julie Onwuchekwa’s Chinaagọrọm (1983) 10. Tony Uchenna Ubesie: The Quintessential Igbo Novelist 11. Interviews with Two Major Igbo Novelists: J.U.T Nzeako and Chinedu Ofomata

Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan–Flint, USA.

• 1. The Need for a Literary History 2. Igbo Literary Origins 3. Minstrelsy in Traditional Igbo Society: Remembering a Pioneer Legend—Israel Nwaọba Njemanze (Alias Israel Nwaọba) 4. From Voice to Text: Missionary Influence on the Development of Igbo Orthography and Written Igbo Literature 5. Early Fiction in Igbo—The Pioneers 6. The Crisis of Standardization of Written (Literary) Igbo Language: Pioneer Efforts of F.C. Ogbalu: Founder and Architect, Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture (SPILC) 7. On the Threshold of Another Blackout: A New Controversy over the Standardization of Written (Literary) Igbo 8. Chinua Achebe and the Problematics of Writing in Indigenous Nigerian Languages: Towards a Resolution of the Igbo Language Predicament 9. The Female Voice—Rebuttal and Response to Patriarchy: Julie Onwuchekwa’s Chinaagọrọm (1983) 10. Tony Uchenna Ubesie: The Quintessential Igbo Novelist 11. Interviews with Two Major Igbo Novelists: J.U.T Nzeako and Chinedu Ofomata