Bernth Lindfors has contributed importantly, at times single-handedly - to placing Africa and its literature on the curricular map of the Euro-American academy... The analyses and reminiscences collected in this volume...testify to the lasting and continuing fruits of Ben's work... This large assembly of essays, as wide in range as it is rich in diversity, is a fitting tribute to the long, unwavering service Bernth Lindfors has given to African literature' - Chinua Achebe'