As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.Creativity has flourished in Egypt, a historically important and strategically located North African country and a leading nation in the Arab world. The main focus in this volume is to examine Egyptian writers, especially those whose works have enriched African Literature through their depiction of historical, cultural and socio-political forces such as Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif, Tawfiq al-Hakim and Alifa Rifaat (Fatimah Rifaat). Writing in both Arabic and the English language, their thematic concerns have been as versatile as they have been controversial. Nawal El Saadawi provides a Foreword to the volume and an interview. This volume also includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement. Volume Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. Reviews Editor: Obi Nwakanma

Foreword - Nawal El SaadawiEditorial Article: "Is Egypt in Africa, Professor?" - Ernest N. EmenyonuCoping with a Failed Revolution: Basma Abdel, Aziz Nael Eltoukhy, Mohammed Rabie & Yasmine el Rasgidi - John C. HawleyThe Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee's Metro - James M. HodappThe Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation & Magdy el-Shafee's Metro - Deema NasserNarratives of the "Nubian Awakening": Reclaiming Egypt's African Identity - Christine GilmoreFrantz Fanon's Conceptualization of Decolonization in Sonallah Ibrahim's The Committee - Temitope Abisoye NoahRomance as Epistemological Aesthetic in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif - F. Fiona MoollaLiterature as Prophecy: Re-Reading Yusuf Idris's The Cheapest Nights - Eunice NgongkumTravel & Discovery: Hopes for a New Egypt in Mohamed Salmawy's Butterfly Wings - Kelvin N. TohThe Symbolic Relevance of the Use of the Eye in Nawal El Saadawi's Two Women in One & God Dies by the Nile - Razinat Talatu MohammedAfrican Epics: A Comparative Study of Sundiata & Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah - Khalid Abouel-lailConversations with Nawal El Saadawi: Feminism, Dissidence, Patriarchy & Contemporary Egyptian Literature. Online Interview - Nawal El SaadawiFEATURED ARTICLES - Little Magazines & the Development of Modern African Poetry - Mathias Iroro OrheroLocating African and Diaspora Literature in the Global Context - Tomi AdeagaThe Postcolonial Writer & the Existential Ordeal - Nduka OtionoLITERARY SUPPLEMENT - "My Mother (Nawal El Saadawi)" - poem - Mona Helmy"And the Stars Beckoned" - short story - Nadia Wassef"Hijack in Hurghada" - travelogue - Razinat Talatu Mohammed"Childless" - short story - Kalapi Sen"The President's Change Agent" - short story - Akachi EzeigboIn Memoriam: Professor Isidore O. Okpewho, 1941-2016 - Chiji AkomaReviews [Edited by Obi Nwakanma]