Critical approaches to Africa fiction --

Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart: the archetypal African novel (Nigeria) --

Pamela in Africa: Onitsha Market literature (Nigeria) --

Time, space, and description: the Tutuolan world (Nigeria) --

The 'situational" novel: the novels of James Ngugi (Kenya) --

Characters and modes of characterization: Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), James Ngugi (Kenya), and Peter Abrahams (South Africa) --

Assimilated négritude: Camara Laye's Le regard du roi (Guinea) --

Lebrie Peters' The second round: West African Gothic (Gambia) --

The novel of the future: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana) --

Conclusion: The emergence of African fiction.