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RESPONSIBLE CRITIC: ESSAYS ON AFRICAN LITERATURE IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR BEN OBUMSELU Shapeshifters good food has played aThe Responsible Critic is a critical anthology offered as a tribute to a founding father of African literary criticism, Professor Ben Obumselu. The collection of seventeen scholarly articles examines the state of literary studies in Africa