Shadow and Dream : Langaa RPCID : 9789956553877 : 9956553875 : 23 Mar 2023 : Harry Garuba's Shadow and Dream, a slim yet highly influential collection which immediately gained a cult following, has continued to elicit the awe of poets and lovers of literature within the Nigerian literary scene. First published in 1982 when Garuba was still in his early twenties, it demonstrates an uncommon maturity, vision and understated confidence that have rarely been encountered ever since its initial release. With the publication of this edition together with a new foreword and introduction, Garuba's landmark work moves from cult status to canonical validation. "I try to think what Harry would have thought when I face difficult local/global questions. He is alive in my work", Professor Gayatri C. Spivak, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University "Shadow and Dream's subtlety, equanimous undertones and delicate but unfailing charm lent a profound sense of poetic li