Emmanuel Egar is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. He has a Ph.D. in English and a Ph.D in Higher Education. He is the author of The Rhetorical Implications of Things Fall Apart, Black Women Poets of Harlem Renaissance, The Crisis of Negritude: A Study of the Black Movement Against Intellectual Oppression in the Early 20th Century, and The Poetics of Rage.