CHAPTER 1 – SETTING THE SCENE
e'lusive (adj) flygtig di'aspora (sb) uden for Nigeria
globalized and digitized. They have one foot in Hollywood and another in Nollywood. (…) these new writers have new things to write about. They don’t care about political independence or national struggle as much as personal independence and individual struggle. They have a new world to put into words, a post ideological, post-terror, post-cyber world of urban struggle and shifting identity. Theirs is a world with an elusive sense of self out there, somewhere, just beyond their grasp."1 No wonder the interest in Nigerian writing in English is flourishing! Nigerian writers as well as writers from other African countries – whether living in Africa or in the diaspora – are successfully putting Africa back on the literary map of the world with lots of creative stories and new perspectives on life in a globalized world.
1 Frank Bures: Things Come Together – a Journey Through Literary Lagos (2007). See link on the website 14 AFRICA UNFOLD
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