Language, Literature and Style in Africa

Arua E. Arua is Associate Professor of English at the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. His areas of research interest include applied linguistics, language and gender, literacy and reading, and literary stylistics. His publications have appeared in Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Women and Language and World Englishes, among others. He has co-edited a number of books, including Reading for All in Africa: Building Communities where Literacy Thrives, published by the International Reading Association in 2003. Taiwo Abioye holds a PhD degree in English from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. Her academic background in interdisciplinary knowledge includes stylistics, applied linguistics, and English literacy. She is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, and has been a University Lecturer for about 26 years. Kehinde Ayoola is Senior Lecturer in English and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. His main areas of interest include discourse analysis, pragmatics and applied English linguistics. He is the editor of Papers in English and Linguistics (PEL), and has published in numerous reputable international journals, including English Today, Discourse Studies and Linguistik Online. He is also the co-editor of Blazing the Path: Fifty years of Things Fall Apart and Current Linguistic and Literary Issues in Digital Communication in the Globalised Age.