Dissident Bards African Tyrants: Essays on Contemporary Fiction, Poetry and Drama

Dissident Bards African Tyrants is a compendium of essays on contemporary fiction, poetry and drama, the first of a triad of the cultural appraisal of African heritage by Nigerian author Chin Ce. This second edition is somewhat stretched enough to conflate the arguments for wider audience participation with the works of Chin Ce which continue to hold the Nigerian state and its leadership under the radar of dissident exposure and censurous investigation.

Ce argues that no serious evaluation of Africa's history or of sustainable progress in the region should ignore the contributions of the creative literatures of her people to the general debate. African novelists, poets and dramatists whose works have had honoured mention in this collection include Camara Laye, LS Senghor, Dennis Brutus, Dennis Osadebey, Chinua Achebe, Okot p' Bitek, Christopher Okigbo, Flora Nwapa, Ayi Kwei Armah, Wole Soyinka, Chinweizu, to mention but a few.