Glendora Review

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title = Glendora Review

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editor = Dapo Adeniyi, Akin Adesokan, Michael Veal
frequency = quarterly
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company = Private
firstdate = 1994-current
country = Flag|Nigeria
language = English
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issn = "Glendora Review"' was conceived in an atmosphere of intellectual crisis following the brain drain from Nigeria during the Abacha regime. Its founder, Olakunle Tejuoso, whose family owns the Lagos alternative bookstore after which the journal is named, wanted to create a forum where people could access the work being done by Nigerian intellectuals who had fled the country, and a bridge for artistic theories and activities being propagated by African intellectuals in the West and their contemporaries at home.

Constantly engaging and interrogating the idea of Africa as a contested and dynamic invention, Glendora provided a platform for intellectual discourse on literary, visual, and performance cultures that is sensitive to the mutations and complexities of cultural work on Africa in a global age. A strong aesthetic sense coupled with an editorial style that, while rigorous, managed to avoid being too intellectual or esoteric, attracted a wide-ranging readership in Nigerian and abroad.

Although initially focused on Nigeria's arts and cultures, Glendora grew into a pan African journal with regular features and interviews of icons such as Ngugi wa Thiongo, Mbongeni Ngema, Sembene Ousmane or Sun Ra, and critical texts on African literature. The journal also included a books supplement.The last issue of Glendora appeared in 2004 and its publishers have focused since on the publication of books, namely the tome of the West African megapolis, "Lagos: A City At Work".Reviewing the influence of "Glendora Today" on the younger generation of Nigerian writers African Literature Today writes: "Indeed there may be said to be a Glendora Group or a Glendora Generation, made up of those who as critics or poets, and guided by Dapo Adeneyi, published in the journal.cite book |author=Ernest Emenyonu, Patricia Thornton Emenyonu, F. D. Imbuga, James Gibbs |title=New Directions in African Literature: A Review|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jJIhfMP_v5MC&pg=PT41&dq=%22Glendora+Review%22&output=html&sig=ACfU3U2gRcaDNvdziqRrwfrdtqHz5lpjmw |publisher=James Currey Publishers |location=|year=2006|pages=160 |isbn=0852555709|oclc= |doi= |accessdate=]

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