Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe, Volume 2

Ernest N. Emenyonu is Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at University of Michigan, Flint. He served as Deputy Vice Chancellor at University of Calabar, Nigeria, and also as provost of Alvan Ikoku College of Education in Owerri, Nigeria. He is the author of several works of criticism on African literature as well as fiction including a collection of short stories and four childrens books. Iniobong Uko teaches African, African American and Caribbean Literatures in the Department of Africana Studies, University of Michigan-Flint, where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor, on sabbatical from her home University, the University of Uyo in Nigeria. She specializes on African and Diaspora Women's writings. Her articles have appeared in leading literary journals in Africa and the United States. She has recently completed a seminal book, Gender and Identity in the Works of Osonye Tess Onwueme.