Contents

pp viii-x

Notes on Contributors

pp xi-xv

Introduction: Itinerariesof African Ecocriticism and Environmental Transformations in African Literature

pp 1-10

Literary Totemism and its Relevance for Animal Advocacy: A Zoocritical Engagement with Kofi Anyidoho’s Literary Bees

pp 11-23

Reading for Background: Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s David Mogo, Godhunter and ‘the end of the world as we know it’

pp 24-36

Poetics of Landscape: Representation of Lagos as a ‘Modernizing’ City in Nigerian Poetry

pp 37-49

Poetic Style and Anthropogenic Ecological Adversity in Steve Chimombo’s Poems

pp 50-64

Female Autonomy in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow

pp 65-77

Local Collisions: Oil on Water, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, and the Politics of Form

pp 78-91

‘It is the Writer’s Place to Stand with the Oppressed’: Anthropocene Discourses in John Ngong Kum Ngong’s Blot on the Landscape and The Tears of the Earth

pp 92-105

Black Atlantic Futurism, Toxic Discourses and Decolonizing the Anthropocene in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix

pp 106-121

Readings into the Plantationocene: From the Slave Narrative of Charles Ball to the Speculative Histories of Octavia Butler and Nnedi Okorafor

pp 122-133

INTERVIEW

with Kenyan Novelist, Yvonne Owuor

pp 134-140

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

pp 141-142

‘Maiming’ (Poem)

pp 143-143

‘I am set in a Burden to Sing’ (Poem)

pp 144-145

‘Poems from the Oil Archipelago’ (& Other Poems)

pp 146-152

‘Man is Dead’ (Poem)

pp 153-156

‘Art Pub’ / ‘City Life’ (2 Poems)

pp 157-158

‘Indian Ocean is Crying’ (Poem)

pp 159-160

‘My Pet Bee’ (Poem)

pp 161-163

‘The Homecoming’ (Short Story)

pp 164-166

‘The Power of Bribe’ (Short Story)

pp 167-169

TRIBUTE

Pa Gabriel Okara (1918–2019): An African Literary Colossus on Ancestral Journey

pp 170-175

REVIEWS

Helon Habila, Travelers

pp 176-178

Greg Mbajiorgu & Amanze Akpuda (eds), 50 Years of Solo Performing Art in Nigerian Theatre 1966–2016

pp 179-182