Walter P. Collins, III, is the Regional Campus Dean and Associate Professor of French and English at the University of South Carolina Lancaster. His previous publications include Tracing Personal Expansion: Reading Selected Novels as Modern African Bildungsroman and Emerging African Voice.

Writing Contemporary Nigeria: How Sefi Atta Illuminates African Culture and Tradition by Walter Collins
Award-winning writer Sefi Atta’s insights into the roles and treatment of women, neocolonial government structures, patriarchy, 21st-century phenomena such as Nigerian e-mail phishing and the role of geography and place in characters’ lives make her works some of the most indelible offerings across contemporary African fiction. This pioneering premier collection examines Atta’s bold and engaging treatment of various—and often difficult—themes.
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