Saturday, December 8, 2012

KOLE OMOTOSHO


Kole Omotosho has published many number of novels and stories over the decades and is highly respected as a long-standing academic, essayist, literary critic and linguist. His intriguing work, Just Before Dawn was controversial in his native country (Nigeria) and he has now lived and worked in South Africa for many years.
His books, published over the years, include The Edifice (1971), The Combat (1972), Miracles (short stories) (1973), Fella's Choice (1974), Sacrifice (1974), The Scales (1976), To Borrow a Wandering Leaf (1978), Memories of Our Recent Boom (1982) Just Before Dawn (1988), The Form of the African Novel , Season of Migration to the South: Africa's crises reconsidered (1994), Achebe or Soyinka? a study in contrasts (1995) and Woza Africa (1997)

Studies:


The historical novel and the postcolonial paradigm by Noah Roderick 

Bridges : a profile of Kole Omotoso by Elaine Savory


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