Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Joseph Jeffrey Walters: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Introductory Notes to Guanya Pau

Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess

Appendix A: From Sir Arthur Helps, Friends in Council (1853)

Appendix B: Charles C. Penick, “The Devil Bush of West Africa” (1893)

Appendix C: Excerpts from three books by Thomas Besolow (1890, 1891, 1892)

Appendix D: The Vai Writing System

Appendix E: Letters and Articles by Joseph Jeffrey Walters

Appendix F: Obituaries of Joseph Jeffrey Walters

Bibliography

About the Author

Gareth Griffiths is a Professor of English at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of African Literatures in English (East and West) (2000) and the co-editor of The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (1998).

John Victor Singler is a Professor of Linguistics at New York University and the author of An Introduction to Liberian English (1981) and numerous articles on English and the other languages of Liberia.

Reviews

“Arguing against polygamy and child betrothals and insisting on equal rights for women, Guanya Pau merits recognition as the first feminist novel written by an African. In an excellent introduction, Griffiths and Singler provide an impressive amount of information on this pioneering text and its author.” — Bernth Lindfors, University of Texas at Austin