This course will introduce students to the major issues surrounding contemporary African literature with a focus on anglophone texts. It will begin by questioning the meaning(s) and history of African literature, its complex relationship with colonialism, languages, and identities, (self-)representations of various forms of narration, and the emergence and significance of experimental writing. The course aims to highlight some major contemporary African literary movements and their historical and socio-political significance and to introduce some of the key and emerging writers of African literature. It will also critically examine and discuss some of the important issues and debates that have shaped the theorisation and conceptualisation of African literature.