Writers and Social Thought in Africa

Wale Adebanwi is Associate Professor in African American and African Studies at the University of California-Davis, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and another in social anthropology from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, UK, where he was a Bill and Melinda Gates Scholar. He is the author of Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obáfemi Awólowo and Corporate Agency (2014).

• Preface 1. The writer as social thinker 2. Literature, trauma and the African moral imagination 3. The infrapolitics of subordination in Patrice Nganang’s Dog Days 4. Imagining a dialectical African modernity: Achebe’s ontological hopes, Sembene’s machines, Mda’s epistemological redness 5. Sexual/textual politics: rethinking gender and sexuality in gay Moroccan literature 6. Against epistemic totalitarianism: the insurrectional politics of Bessie Head 7. The Writer as ‘Ragpicker’: The Auratic Power of the Mundane in Nadine Gordimer's Recent Fiction 8. African being and cultural project