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Welcome to IRCALC Research in African Literature and Culture... Find
scholarly criticisms of the works of Ama Ata Aidoo . Bessie Head . Bessora .
Cheikh Hamidou Kane . Camara Laye . Chin Ce . Chinua Achebe . Edward
Brathwaite . Femi Osofisan . Ferdinand Oyono . JM Coetzee . JN Nkengasong .
Lucy Dlamini . Mia Couto . Mongo Beti . Neshani Andreas . Ngugi wa Thiong'o
. Niyi Osundare . Odia Ofeimun . Oral Literatures . Ossie Enekwe . Tanure
Ojaide . Tess Onwueme . Vassanji . V. S. Naipaul . Wole Soyinka . Sembene
Ousmane . Yvonne Vera >>Enter>>

This website is dedicated to studies in African Literature and
Culture, and to propagating African literary thought and aesthetics.
For years, the [9]IRCALC initiative on African studies has given
publishing impetus for the emergence of scholarly literary journals on
African literary and cultural expressions.

Our Mission and Purpose
To further the imaginative approach to Africa's leadership and development
concerns through providing an authentic network for scholarly discourse on
Africa's literatures and cultures, not excluding, indeed, other writings of
the black Diaspora that lend meaning and support to the African vision.

This website is dedicated to studies in African Literature and
Culture, and to propagating African literary thought and aesthetics.
For years, the [9]IRCALC initiative on African studies has given
publishing impetus for the emergence of scholarly literary journals on
African literary and cultural expressions.

Our Mission and Purpose
To further the imaginative approach to Africa's leadership and development
concerns through providing an authentic network for scholarly discourse on
Africa's literatures and cultures, not excluding, indeed, other writings of
the black Diaspora that lend meaning and support to the African vision.

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Current Journal Publications

On our Writer's Forum 'Out of Africa'

Journal of African Literature and Culture JALC No. 3

Male Characters of Ama Ata Aidoo

Creating Identity from Postcolonial Void

The Cyclic Order of Chin Ce's Oeuvres

Journal of New Poetry NP 3

Beyond Subjectificatory Structures

The Legacy of Phillis Wheatley

African Literary Journal ALJ B5

Ngugi's Marxist Aesthetic

Bards and Tyrants: Literature, Leadership and Citizenship...

Journal of New Nigerian Poetry NNP No. 2

Phases in Nigerian Poetry in English

The Poetry of Osmond Enekwe

African Literary Journal ALJ B4

Birth Songs of Oku Women of Cameroun

Riddle and Bash: The Creative Wit of Alaa's Children

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Meet Irene Marques:

Poet-Scholar

Irene Marques holds the University of Toronto Ph.D. in Comparative
literature. Raised in Portugal and currently living in Canada, her
understanding of colonialism and discrimination is generally shaped by
an academic background in social work and comparative literature with
emphasis on African literatures in Portuguese, French and English, and
Caribbean. Dr. Marques currently teaches world literature and
Portuguese at two universities in Canada with an emphasis on African
and Caribbean literatures.

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