This book provides quality essays on literary works by major African, Afro-American, Afro-Caribbean, British writers ; and also on Cultural Studies. Each of its 24 essays gets to the heart of the topic it explores with absorbing insight. It gives special attention to female writers : Emecheta, Schwartz - Bart, Aminata Sow Fall, Jamaica Kincaid, Gloria Naylor and Toni Morrison. Male writers also are given their due : Soyinka, Sembene, LaGuma, Coetzee, Manual Puig, Senghor... But, in many ways, this is a celebration of women and womanhood. Simply delightful !