M.V. Dimic, Professor and Chair Department of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

“A major stride achieved in this collection is the fact that the author has been able to draw a straight line between the art of renowned African novelists and their more established counterparts of European and American fiction. This is not just a study of African fiction, it is a dissection of the craft of fiction anywhere. Considering the extensive cross references with which he embellishes his analysis. By using psychological constructs so extensively, something that many may have hitherto assumed to be the exclusive reserve of legends of European and American fiction, he ventures into a domain that is astoundingly new in the study of all African literature, thus sending critics of African literature back to the drawing board by providing new weapons for viewing that literature.”