Chin Ce: 7 books

The Visitor is Chin Ce's full length novel and third in the series. Set in a future time, a movie scene has triggered in Deego, the viewer, series of experiences which draw back to a history of crime and death in an African nation. Corruption permeates the entire fabric of this third-world state and...

Gamji College begins on a staccato rhythm. From the rustic setting of Koloko, Chin Ce's cynical gaze rests on the chaos and drift that permeate the lives of modern college students. It is the same tragedy that we have seen in Children of Koloko of misplaced values and directionlessness bred on the...

Reading Ce’s Dreamer and Oracle tales is to enter the romantic idealism of Full Moon - brutally contrasted with the disappointment we find in his Millennial- collections. It is to gaze inside the conflicting mind of a visionary which frequently mitigates attainment of ideals with the sad reality...

Seen through the eyes of a young hero, Yoyo, and his friends, Buff and Dickie, the story of the 'children' of Koloko spans the life and habits of semi urban folks in Africa. It is a beautifully crafted work where the author weaves interrelated slices of life to make a refreshingly original statement...

The short story has always been an important medium for artistic and educational development of ancient cultures. In this collection of thirty eight African narratives, we occasionally stoop backward in present time to scoop some forgotten lore of the past. Welcome to a harvest of rich cultural imagination....

African Literature 10 Contemporary Series features critical entries and reviews on favourite authors of African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. The lead work shows how Toomer created a new idiom which allowed him to express the more immediate and intricate complexities of the African-American...

Using the works of Morrison, Head, Ba, Vera, Magona, Rotimi, Okri, D’Aguiar, Onwueme, Mabanckou, Biyaoula and the Insigamigani texts of Rwanda, scholars present further approaches to the concepts and problems of race, heroism and the African writer’s memory and reinvention of linear time. The...