Looking over the titles of the selections in this anthology, we are reassured that the title we have chosen for the book, Challenging Hierarchies, remains an apt one. For example, the title of Micere Mugo's second selection, "The South End of a North South Writers' Dialogue," speaks eloquently to the notion of hierarchies and the attempts of African writers to call...

At an entirely different level, this book is also meant to be a kind of commemoration of what some would ay is along overdue idea. After several years of thinking about the feasibility and viability of the proposition, the government of Ghana finally agreed to establish a university in the region. The University of Development Studies (popularly referred to as the ...