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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank administrators, colleagues, and staff at the University of South Carolina Lancaster for their encouragement as I undertook and completed this book project. Particularly, I would like to thank Dean John Catalano, Associate Dean Ron Cox, and Dr. Bruce Nims for their support. Dr. Jerry Currence graciously assisted with computer software questions, and Mrs. Shana Dry helped with formatting the various images that appear in the book. Likewise, I would like to offer sincere thanks to Mrs. Rose Ellen Eckburg, whose expertise has yielded a functional and comprehensive book index. Finally, I would like to thank Mrs. Annette Horton, whose assistance I appreciate each day I come to work.
The nine scholars who contributed to this volume deserve the greatest praise for their insights and appraisals of the works of these new African writers and for adhering to timelines, due dates, and guidelines. Coordinating the logistics of an edited volume can be challenging at times, but this team of colleagues made my job much easier and quite rewarding. Their scholarship offers meaningful perspectives on a group of deserving writers who, in their own ways and in their own corners of