title: Writers in Politics: A Re-engagement with Issues of Literature and Society (Studies in African Literature (Paperback))
author:  Ngugi wa Thiong'o 
description: The overall impression is that Ngugi has retained the substance and thrust of the earlier text, strengthened the focus and structure of his arguments and made some attempt to recast the polemical bluntness of the first edition. Although, of course, both editions are valuable as explicit markers in the process of Ngugi's developing reformist views, the revised edition, extending and reflecting on its prototype, is unequivocally the better book.- Diane Schwerdt in AFSAAP ... from the 1970s on, Ngugi's commitment has never faltered, and his involvement has only become more outspoken and uncompromising, and one function of the re-edition is to bring earlier material more in line with the developments in his political stance since the appearance of the original in 1981. - Patrick Williams in JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES
zlib_text: Seminar Proceedings No. 20 
  CRITICISM AND IDEOLOGY 
  Second African Writers' Conference 
  Stockholm 1986 
  Edited by 
  Kirsten Holst PetersPA 
  with an introductory essay by 
  Per Wiistberg 
  Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala 1988 
  
  Cover: "Nairobi City Centre", painting by Ancent Soi, Kenya, reproduced with 
  the permission of Gunter Peus. 
  ISSN 0281-0018 
  ISBN 91-7106-276-9 
  © Nordiska afrikainstitutet, 1988 
  Phototypesetting by 
  Textgruppen i Uppsala AB 
  Printed in Sweden by 
  Bohuslaningens Boktryckeri AB, U ddevalla 1988 
  
  Foreword 
  The first Stockholm conference for African writers was held in 1 967, at 
  Hasselby Castle outside Stockholm , to discuss the role of the writer in mo­
  dern African Society, especially the relationship of his or her individuality 
  to a wider social commitment. It was arranged on the initiative of Per 
  Wast berg, well-known for having introduced much of African literature to 
  the Swedish public. 
  On Per Wastberg's initiative the Second Stockholm 