Is Africa contributing efficiently and sufficiently to the growing and monstrously disparate body of knowledge we all now refer to as postcolonial theory? Judging from current reflection and discussion among specialists, it would seem that initial anxieties about the relevance and applicability of postcolonial theory to African literatures (and postcoloniality to the African condition) are now compounded by even more troubling anxieties about the quality of Africa's contribution to the field. Participants in Anglophone and…
