Adewale Maja-Pearce

Biography

Adewale Maja-Pearce is the author of several books, including A Peculiar Tragedy (New Gong, 2010) and Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and Other Essays (New Gong, 2005). He is also the author of the 1998 and 1999 annual reports on human-rights violations in Nigeria and the editor of The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English (William Heinemann Ltd, 1986) and The New Gong Book of Nigerian Short Stories (New Gong, 1987), among other anthologies.

See Work

CRITICISM / Fall 2016

The Successors

By Adewale Maja-Pearce

There has been much talk lately of a renaissance in Nigerian literature. Hardly a year passes without yet another young writer winning yet another international prize. This renaissance is measured against the writers who came of age around...