Introduction. Kenya and Uganda in the Limelight: Setting the Stage 1. \"The landscape had not its like in all the world\": (East) African Anglophone Writing from the 1940s to the Late 1990s 2. African Literary NGOs (LINGOs): A Model for African Literary Criticism and Cultural Politics 3. The African Literary Revolution on Our Doorstep?: African LINGOs Past and Present 4. Survival of the Fittest: African LINGOs - An Enduring Phenomenon? 5. \"Tongues on Fire\": The Politics of Being an African Writer in an African LINGO in the 21st Century 6. \"Words that reshape a country\" and Literary Canons?: Agency and Narrative 7. Rewriting African Identity, Self, and Place: Civil War and HIV/AIDS in Fiction 8. Some Conclusions and Future Scenarios for the African LINGO in the 21st Century