Afropolitan Horizons, Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria, Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria

Author

Hannerz; Ulf

Year

2022

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-80073-319-0

Link

Last Update

01-Mar-2026

Keywords

Anthropology ; Language & Literature ; African Studies

Description

What this book is not: it is not a comprehensive overview of Nigerian literature. That would better be left to a professional scholar of literature, probably a Nigerian.¹ It is rather a set of personal essays on various topics and themes in Nigerian writing as I have encountered it, following it rather unsystematically, over a little more than half a century, as part of a more general fascination with Africa’s largest, very diverse country. My visits to Nigeria spread over four decades, although not over a more recent period.² When I did not get there, I kept watching it from.