Fifteen writers from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe
talk about their own work and about writing in general.
Interviews with Kofi Anyidoho, Kofi Awoonor, Mohammed ben Abdallah,
Chinua Achebe, Odia Ofeimun, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Micere Githae Mugo,
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Mazisi Kunene, Njabulo Ndebele, Essop Patel, Mongane
Wally Serote, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Musaemura Bonas Zimunya.
Among the subjects discussed in these lively interviews are the role of
literary institutions, language policies, the development of written and
oral cultures, and the social and political problems of post-colonial
Africa.