The ESSENTIAL Ekwensi : a literary celebration of Cyprian Ekensi's 65th birthday
Date
1987
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Ibadan, Oyo State: Heinemann Educational Books Nig. Ltd.
Abstract
The Man, Cyprian Ekwensi; Ekwensi as Novelist; Cyprian Ekwensi: Nigeria's Master; Taming the Wraith: Securing and Controlling in The Drummer Boy; Multicultural Education in Cyprian Ekwensi's An African Night's Entertainment; Value Perception in People of the City; A Reader's Diary of Cyprian Ekwensi's War Novels; Carl Jung and Cyprian Ekwensi: The Archetypes in Jagua Nana; Morality in Cyprian Ekwensi's Urban-based Fiction; Feminist Tendency in Ekwensi's Jagua Nana's Daughter; Cyprian Ekwensi: His Comic Vision; Random Thoughts on Clocking Sixty-five.
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Cyprian Ekwensi, one of the pioneer African novelists in modem African literature was sixty-five years old on September 26, 1986, In the last forty years, he has written short stories, books for children and for adolescents, and several major novels. Some of his works, especially his adult novels, have been as popular as they have been controversial. Ekwensi continues to write, contributing in no small measure to keeping Nigeria s name on the world literary map. Even in his sixty-fifth year of life, Ekwensi is still writing. If anything, he seems to have become even more prolific than ever. On February 11 1986, his novel, Jagua Nana's Daughter, a sequel to his most controversial novel Jagua Nana, was launched at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos .A few months later, Heinemann Educational Books (Nig.) Limited released yet another novel by him, For a Roll of Parchment which begins a new series known as the Heinemann Frontline Series. He has only recently completed
another novel entitled Behind the Convent Walls and is working on a number of children's books.