ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book reiterates Africa's current global nature. It attempts to stretch the interdisciplinarity of African literature, which, in dealing with the African reality, integrates so many other disciplines that coalesce to form the African experience. The book suggests a tripartite approach of writers, readers/students, and literary scholars/critics to contribute to the new African literature. Africa is a reality of multifarious experiences. It is a geographical expression, a geo-political unit, and a socio-cultural landmass. The African experience continues to change as the people continue to adapt to new circumstances brought about by the factors that condition it. Africa has been undergoing changes brought about by internal and external circumstances. Colonization, which many scholars would argue, brought modernity to Africa, also spread socio-cultural, economic, and political changes across the continent.
