Issue No3& 4 • 1998 In the study of African writing In Search of Character Manufacturing African Studies Haven Imagined & Paradise Lost The Citification of Creole • GLENDORA BOOKS SUPPLEMENT ISSUE NUMBER THREE/FOUR • 1998 B 0 U Publisher Olakunle Tejuoso Editor-in-chief Dapo Adeniyi Graphics Consultant Felix Omorogbe Production Consultant Dayo Anthony Systems Manager Yemi Fakunle Marketing/Advert Director Fidelis Akpom Jnr. Glendora Books Supplement (ISSUE NOs. 3 & 4) is published quarterly by Glendora International (Nigeria) Limited. Tel: 686870, 680089/2692762 or Fax: Lagos 2618083 or e/mail: 105271,11 ©CompuServe.com. CORRESPONDENCE Africa: Glendora Review, 168, Awolowo Road, P. O. Box 50914, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria Tel: 01-2692762 North America: 7471. Watt Avenue, Suite 109-253 North Highlands, CA 95660 Europe: Glendora Review, 16, Skelley Road, London E154BA, U.K. DISTRIBUTION: North America B. De Boer, 113 East Central st, Nutley, NJ 07110. Africa/Europe: Contact: Toyin Tejuoso, Glendora, P. O. Box 50914, Falomo, Lagos, Nigeria. Phone: 2692762. Fax: 2618083 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be produced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopy- ing or otherwise without the prior written, consent of the publisher. Send all editorial correspondence and subscription enquiries to addresses above. For more about subscription and advertising information, call Lagos 686870, 680089/2692762 or Fax: Lagos 2618083 or e/mail: 105271,11 @ compuserve.com. Farah Wins the Neustadt THE writer, Nurudeen Farah was named the 1998 win- ner of the Neustadt international prize for literature, widely regarded as the most prestigious international literary prize after the Nobel prize. The prize is conferred by the University of Okla- homa and its international journal, World Literature Today. Pre- vious winners have included Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1972), Eliza- beth Bishop (1976), Czeshaw Milosz (1978) and Octario Paz (1982). Nurudeen Farah who had been residing in Northern Nigeria since 1992 became the first African to win the Neustadt in its twenty- seven year history. The Los Angeles Times in the month of Decem- ber also selected his latest book of fiction entitled SECRETS (pub- lished by Arcade, New York as one of the best fiction books pub- lished in the United States in 1998 even as Village Literary Supple- ment, New York voted the same work as one of the best twenty novels to appear in 1998. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and World Literature Today, the oldest continously published international literary quarterly in the United States. The Prize consists of $40,000, a replica of an eagle feather cast in silver, and an award certificate. It is conferred biennially in even-numbered years. Funding for the prize has been ensured in perpetuity by a generous endowment from the Neustadt family of Ardmore, Oklahoma. Established in 1969 as the Books Abroad International Prize for Literature , then renamed the Books Abroad/Neustadt Prize in 1972 before assuming its present name in 1976, the Neustadt Prize is the first international literary award of this scope to originate in the United States and is one of the very few international prizes for which poets, novelist, and playwrights are equally eligible. The charter of the Neustadt Prize stipulates that the award be given in recognition of outstanding achievement in poetry, fic- tion, or drama and that it be conferred solely on the basis of liter- ary merit. Any living author writing in any language is eligible, provided only that at least a representative portion of his or her work is available in English, French, and/or Spanish-the three languages used in jury deliberations. The prizs may serve to crown a lifetime's achievement or to di- rect attention to an important body of work that is still de- veloping. The Prize is not open to applica- tion. < * *: A new interna- tional jury of 12 out- standing writers is selected to decide the winner each Neustadt Prize. Membership of the jury is determined by of C O V ER P H O T O G R A P H: Jide Adeniyi-Jones Shows aerial view of Cape Town through the mountains. Patch of land in the middle of the water is Robben Island. Inner back cover »