The present volume, Introduction to Contemporary African Literature, relates to the need to shift critical attention and reconsider the canon we call African Literature. The classical themes of African literature were narratives of authentic cultures and the fight against colonial occupations, together with early encounters with nascent nationalism. More recent concerns, however, display the consequences from state-failures, endemic corruption, dictatorships and illegal migration scenarios. Considered as an effort to highlight these questions in recent African literature, the book features and examines the literary outputs of four African Anglophone writers: two from the Maghreb (Laila Lalami from Morocco and Belkacem Meghzouchene from Algeria) and two from West Africa (both from Nigeria, Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie). The four, Dr. Mami claims, are burgeoning new voices, telling a transnational narrative and exploring globalizing forces, both at the level of themes and techniques. In short, the author reads the contributions of these prolific writers as social commentary regarding the way present ugly realities are logical consequences of the misuse of power following political independence, not only the legacy of colonial occupation and trans-Atlantic slavery. In addition, the book interjects its commentaries with several essay- and paragraph-related questions, theoretical contextualization, useful tips on essay writing and other required guidance for passing exams and writing exceptional term papers. In following the recommendations inside, Master students of literature will be less lost and even become savvy in respect to the expectations that their transition from Licence to the Masters level entails.