Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions.

This text examining African literature in English covers topics such as 18th and 19th-century slave narratives of the black diaspora, 19th and early-20th-century histories, travel accounts, political writing and the beginnings of fiction.