Chapter 1: Global Specters: child soldiers in the post-national fiction of Uzodinma Iweala and Chris Abani / Alexandra W. Schultheis -- Chapter 2: "Breaking Gods": the narrator as revelator and critic of the postcolonial condition in purple hibiscus / Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- Chapter 3: Negotiating Nigeria: connecting Chris Abani's GraceLand to Africa's past / Veronica C. Hendrick -- Chapter 4: Fatou Diome's Black Atlantic: re-inscribing anti-imperialism / Katherine Farley Galvagni -- Chapter 5: Helon Habila's neoliberal Nigeria: free markets and subordinate cultures in waiting for an angel / David Cockley -- Chapter 6: The novel architecture of Phaswane Mpe's welcome to our Hillbrow / Timothy Johns -- Chapter 7: The allegory of self and other In Soyinka's The Lion and the jewel and Okesipe's Professor's last death / Akinola Oriola -- Chapter 8: Ogaga Ifowodo and the oral tradition: an analysis of form and socio-political issues in Madiba / Dikě Okoro -- Chapter 9: Fresh "Cultural Critiques": the ethnographic fabulations of Adichie and Oyeyemi / R. Victoria Arana.