Omenụkọ (real name: Igwegbe Odum) whose home in Okigwe, Eastern Nigeria, was a popular spot for field trips by students in schools and colleges, as well as

This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel,

Explores intellectual currents in African prose and verse from sung or chanted lines to modern writings