Nuggets of the African Novel: With Notes on the Liberian Literary Heritage

K-MOSES NAGBE is an African writer from Liberia. A product of interdisciplinary education, Nagbe studied in Liberia and America—at the Sasstown Government School, the Sinoe High School, the Modern Commercial Institute, the University of Liberia, the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, and the Glassboro [Rowan] State University. He has taught for over two decades, both at the secondary and tertiary levels, principal among which have been the Samford Dennis High School, the Monrovia College & Industrial Arts School, the College of West Africa, the Don Bosco Polytechnic, and the University of Liberia. Besides serving in either executive or simple member capacity on numerous social, political, professional, and religious committees, Nagbe has served as past presidents of the University of Liberia Faculty Association [ULFA] and the Liberia Association of Writers [LAW], the latter of which made him a signatory to the Charter of the Pan African Writers Association [PAWA]. He has been an International Visiting Fellow of the United States Informaton Agency [USIA].  He has been featured on BBC [the British Broadcasting Corporation]. Among his works are Thinking Through the Times[1991], a collection of essays and poems; Clipping the Claws: An Informal Text on Poetry [1992]; The Road to Romeo [1992], a short novel, and Bulk Challenge: The Sorrow, The Shame, The Shock, The Smile [1996], a travelogue based on one of those numerous times Liberians took flight during the heat of the Liberian Civil War. Additionally, he has done three long works of prose fiction—Sun at Midnight [2003], Wings for the Next Day [2004], A Scream in the Storm [2004].