Archival Significance
Written by Elizabeth Gunner, a scholar who went on to a significant academic career in African literature and oral performance studies, this handbook addresses the practical challenge of teaching African literature as a continent-wide field rather than a single national tradition.
Institutional Context
Published by Heinemann Educational Books, London, the same publisher behind the influential African Writers Series that supplied much of the literature the handbook addresses.
Content Summary
Provides pedagogical guidance for teaching African literature, covering approach, selection and classroom method.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of African literature pedagogy and curriculum development, and of how the teaching of African literature was being professionalised as a distinct field in the 1980s.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.