CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE 21 Black Classic Press and sex under the stars

and sex under the stars

and daring

ISBN-10 : 1250083257

T'Challa struggles to unite his citizens

CHILDHOOD IN AFRICAN LITERATURE 21 Black Classic Press and sex under the starsAfrican authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue have exposed a grim reality of cruelty, harshness, parental (particularly paternal) egocentrism and extraordinary bruisings of the vulnerable child psyche. Camara Laye may have portrayed a paradise state but