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Teaching the African Novel Garth M. Massey and Frederick Douglass-Kopec contends thatWhat is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ngugi wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters; the influence of