TY - BOOK AU - Laurence Margaret AU - Stovel Nora Foster TI - Long drums & cannons: Nigerian dramatists and novelists, 1952-1966 SN - 0888643322 : AV - PR9387 U1 - 820.9 PY - 2001/// CY - Edmonton PB - University of Alberta Press KW - Nigerian literature English KW - History and criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / Douglas Killam -- Preface / Christian Riegel -- Talking Drums and Dancing Masks: Introducing Margaret Laurence's Long Drums and Cannons / Nora Foster Stovel -- Nigerian Literature Then and Now / Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah -- Long Drums and Cannons -- 1. Voices of Life, Dance of Death: Wole Soyinka -- 2. Rituals of Destiny: John Pepper Clark -- 3. The Thickets of Our Separateness: Chinua Achebe -- 4. A Twofold Forest: Amos Tutuola -- 5. Masks of the City: Cyprian Ekwensi -- 6. Other Voices. T. M. Aluko. Elechi Amadi. Nkem Nwankwo. Flora Nwapa. Onuora Nzekwu. Gabriel Okara -- Tribalism As Us Versus Them -- App. II. Civil War in Nigeria -- App. III. Ethnic Groups Discussed in Long Drums and Cannons ER -