Extending  Boundaries

ITH the collapse of 'cultural economies'
across  significant  portions  of  Africa  in
past  years,  there  has  been  the  virtual
absence of critical fora which engage the
I diverse  trove  of  boobs  written  by
Africans,  or  on Africa  and  its diasporas,  as validly  essential
forms of cultural  representation.

Glendora  Books  Supplement  has.  consequently,  taben
up the challenge posed by this unfortunate and yet disturbing
chasm  in  criticism.  It  presents  an  intellectual  platform
motivating  the  cultivation  of  a  culture  hinged  on  the
evaluation of boobs.

Although its crucial territory is defined as an engagement

with boobs written

by Africans and about Africa, alongside those  from, and about
citizens of,  its diasporas, it is not limited by these but extends
to embrace other modes and geographies of  representation
inscribed as published  forms.

Importantly,  Glendora Books  Supplement  supports  the
boob  industry  in  the  exhibition  it  affords  titles  that  are
accorded  review  space,  as  much  as  in  the  cultural
conversations it enables through the facilitation of discourses
around  boobs. Its style is predicated  on  an  interrogation of
evolving  bnowledge  forms, while  the critical  topography  it
expands  toward  accommodates  boobs  encoding  diverse
epistemologies  traversing  creative  arts,  humanities,
cybernetics and numerous other fields.

The Glendora Books Supplement,  ultimately, encourages
the  contribution  of  those  who  desire  to  probe  texts  and
representations in efforts  to extend the boundaries of what is
bnown.

ISSUE S I X*  2001 •  eLENOOM BOOKS SUPPLEMENT

Reuben Abati is a columnist with, and
deputy Chairman of Editorial Board, The
Guardian, Lagos.

Wale Adebanwi teaches Political Science
at the University of Ibadan.

Ololade Bamidele is the Managing
Editor of Glendora Review.

Ogaga Ifowodo is a poet, civil rights
activist and, presently, graduate student
at Cornell University, Ithaca. His recent
collection of poetry is Homeland and
Other Poems.

Nina Mba is a historian, columnist witl
The Vanguard newspaper in Lagos and
consultant to the Nigerian  Biographica
Foundation.

Angela Agali has been a two time
winner of the Musical Soceity of Nigeri
(MUSON) Poetry Festival prize. She is
about putting together a collection of
poems.

Ebenezer Obadare teaches
International Relations at Obafemi
Awolowo University, lle-lfe.

Wole Ogundele is senior lecturer in
African Literature at the Department of
English, Obafemi  Awolowo University.

Chux Okhei Ohai writes for the Arts
pages of The Anchor in Lagos. He is also
author  of numerous unpublished  short
stories.

Sola Olorunyomi is a literary critic and
editor of Glendora Review.

Niyi Osundare is a professor of African
and African diaspora  literatures at
University of New Orleans. His books o
poetry The  Eye of the Earth and Waiting
Laughters have won the Commonwealth
Award and the  Noma Award for
publishing in Africa.

Aderemi Raji-Oyelade is an award-
winning poet. He teaches African and
African-American literatures at the
Department of English, University of
Ibadan.