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Adewale Maja-Pearce
Publications: Loyalties and Other Stories, Harlow: Longman, 1986. ISBN:
0582786282. The publishers called this collection ‘enigmatic’. A new
Nigerian edition will be published in 2010.
In My Father’s Country, London: Wm Heinemann, 1987. ISBN:
0434441708. The author took a journey through Nigeria in the mid-1980s
after a 16-year absence to find out what the country meant to him. A
Nigerian edition will be published in 2010.
How many miles to Babylon? London: Wm Heinemann, 1990. ISBN:
0434441724. This was a sequel to the above but based in Britain, the
author’s mother country.
Who’s Afraid of Wole Soyinka? Oxford: Heinemann Educational Books,
1991. ISBN: 0435909770. Essays on censorship when the author worked
as Africa editor of the London-based Index on Censorship, in which
capacity he travelled extensively through Africa writing about the likes of
President-for-Life Ngwazi Dr H. |Kamuzu Banda of the Homburg hat and the
three-piece suit.
A Mask Dancing, London: Hans Zell, 1992. ISBN: 0905450992. This is a
study of the Nigerian novel in English concentrating mainly on the 1980s. A
Nigerian edition will be published in early 2010.
From Khaki to Agbada, Lagos: CLO, 1999. ISBN: 9783218891. This is a
handbook for the 1999 elections which had already been rigged in favour of
Obasanjo in order to placate the Yorubas for the suspected murder of
Abiola.
Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and Other Essays, Lagos: The New Gong,
2005. ISBN: 9783842012. This book consists of twenty-three essays were
written over fifteen years. The book itself was one of the original
publications of the site you are now reading.
(ed.) The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English, Oxford: Heinemann
Educational Books, 1990. ISBN: 0435913239. What it says it is.
(ed.) Wole Soyinka: An Appraisal, Oxford: Heinemann Educational Books,
1994. ISBN: 0435911511. This is a collection of essays to celebrate
Soyinka’s 60th birthday.
Forthcoming: A Peculiar Tragedy: J.P. Clark-Bekederemo and the
Beginnings of Nigerian Literature in English, ISBN: 979-978-076-614-6 This
will be published in early 2010 by YEMAJA, an imprint of The New Gong.
Professional: I run YEMAJA, an editorial services agency based at the
address below. I am also a partner in The New Gong.
Contact: 11 Abiona Close, off Falolu Road, POB 2208, Surulere, Lagos,
Nigeria; phone: 0802 306 1634; email: adewale@thenewgong.com.
Publications: Loyalties and Other Stories, Harlow: Longman, 1986. ISBN:
0582786282. The publishers called this collection ‘enigmatic’. A new
Nigerian edition will be published in 2010.
In My Father’s Country, London: Wm Heinemann, 1987. ISBN:
0434441708. The author took a journey through Nigeria in the mid-1980s
after a 16-year absence to find out what the country meant to him. A
Nigerian edition will be published in 2010.
How many miles to Babylon? London: Wm Heinemann, 1990. ISBN:
0434441724. This was a sequel to the above but based in Britain, the
author’s mother country.
Who’s Afraid of Wole Soyinka? Oxford: Heinemann Educational Books,
1991. ISBN: 0435909770. Essays on censorship when the author worked
as Africa editor of the London-based Index on Censorship, in which
capacity he travelled extensively through Africa writing about the likes of
President-for-Life Ngwazi Dr H. |Kamuzu Banda of the Homburg hat and the
three-piece suit.
A Mask Dancing, London: Hans Zell, 1992. ISBN: 0905450992. This is a
study of the Nigerian novel in English concentrating mainly on the 1980s. A
Nigerian edition will be published in early 2010.
From Khaki to Agbada, Lagos: CLO, 1999. ISBN: 9783218891. This is a
handbook for the 1999 elections which had already been rigged in favour of
Obasanjo in order to placate the Yorubas for the suspected murder of
Abiola.
Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and Other Essays, Lagos: The New Gong,
2005. ISBN: 9783842012. This book consists of twenty-three essays were
written over fifteen years. The book itself was one of the original
publications of the site you are now reading.
(ed.) The Heinemann Book of African Poetry in English, Oxford: Heinemann
Educational Books, 1990. ISBN: 0435913239. What it says it is.
(ed.) Wole Soyinka: An Appraisal, Oxford: Heinemann Educational Books,
1994. ISBN: 0435911511. This is a collection of essays to celebrate
Soyinka’s 60th birthday.
Forthcoming: A Peculiar Tragedy: J.P. Clark-Bekederemo and the
Beginnings of Nigerian Literature in English, ISBN: 979-978-076-614-6 This
will be published in early 2010 by YEMAJA, an imprint of The New Gong.
Professional: I run YEMAJA, an editorial services agency based at the
address below. I am also a partner in The New Gong.
Contact: 11 Abiona Close, off Falolu Road, POB 2208, Surulere, Lagos,
Nigeria; phone: 0802 306 1634; email: adewale@thenewgong.com.
Personal: Adewale
Maja-Pearce was born in
London, England in 1953 and
grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. He
holds a B.A. from the University
College of Swansea, Wales and
an M.A. from the School of
Oriental and African Studies,
University of London. He was
formerly editor of the
Heinemann African Writers
Series, and Africa editor of
Index on Censorship. He lives in
Lagos and is married to Juliet
Ezenwa, the artist:
www.julietezenwa.com.
Maja-Pearce was born in
London, England in 1953 and
grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. He
holds a B.A. from the University
College of Swansea, Wales and
an M.A. from the School of
Oriental and African Studies,
University of London. He was
formerly editor of the
Heinemann African Writers
Series, and Africa editor of
Index on Censorship. He lives in
Lagos and is married to Juliet
Ezenwa, the artist:
www.julietezenwa.com.
