“This is a beautifully written and evocative portrait of an anthropologist’s long-term interests in Nigerian writing and writers, with a focus on Nigeria’s engagements with the wider world. The author’s rich storytelling combines narratives of fieldwork, historical background, erudite scholarship, and analyses of the texts considered… This book takes literary anthropology to new heights.” • Deborah Reed-Danahay, University of Buffalo

“This is a brilliantly innovative and entertaining book, especially if you love literature… It will be of interest not only to anthropologists but also to literary historians interested in the history and the intercultural context of the current crop of best-selling, world-famous Nigerian authors.” • J. Lorand Matory, Duke University

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators, as well as describing the ways in which Nigeria has appeared in foreign news reporting. It is all interwoven with the author’s own anthropological field research in a town in Central Nigeria.

Related Link: Anthropology News: Writing Nigeria, Past and Present: One anthropologist’s journey through his bookshelf leads him to a new project in literary anthropology by Ulf Hannerz

Subject: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies Anthropology of Religion

Area: Africa

LC: PR9387 .H36 2022

BL: DRT ELD.DS.674556

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; LIT004010 LITERARY CRITICISM/African; SOC008010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Ethnic Studies/African Studies