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Prefatory Note
pp. ix-x(2)

Imagined Transformation: Notes on a Postcolonialism of African Literature
pp. 3-26(24)
Author: Raji, Wumi

African Literature: A Showcase for Africa's Leadership Problems
pp. 27-39(13)
Author: Afolayan, Sola

Lit-Orature Development, World Peace, and the Challenges of Literary Theory/Criticism
pp. 41-56(16)
Author: Fashina, Nelson O.

Thematization and Perspectivization of Conflict in Selected Yorùbá Literary Genres
pp. 57-74(18)
Author: Adejumo, Arinpe

Paths of Revolutionary Contestation

Wole Soyinka's Poetry and the Dialectic of Liberal Humanism
pp. 76-97(22)
Author: Yakubu, Udu

The Aesthetic of Rage in Recent

Nigerian Poetry in English Olu Oguibe and Ogaga Ifowodo
pp. 99-114(16)
Author: Egya, Sule E.

The Cumulative Neglect of Collective Responsibility

Postcoloniality, Ecology, and the Niger Deltascape in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide
pp. 115-131(17)
Author: Okuyade, Ogaga

“Vipers who minute our twitches“

Psychopaths That Served Banda's Malaŵian Dictatorship in Jack Mapanje's Prison Poetry
pp. 133-161(29)
Author: Chirambo, Reuben Makayiko

Bringing Hinduism to Bear on the Ghanaian Situation

Ladé Wosornu's Artistry as a Call for Spiritual Renewal
pp. 163-178(16)
Author: Adisa, Gordon S.K.

Cultural Identity and Literature

A Study of Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino
pp. 179-190(12)
Author: Usongo, Kenneth

Towards the Retrieval of the Lost Voice

Contestation and Reclamation of Discourse in Half a Century of African Women's Europhone Fiction
pp. 193-219(27)
Author: Asaah, Augustine H.

Rulers Against Writers, Writers Against Rulers The Failed Promise of the Public Sphere in Postcolonial Nigerian Fiction
pp. 221-251(31)
Author: Kehinde, Ayo

A Lingering Nightmare

Achebe, Ofoegbu, and Adichie on Biafra
pp. 253-272(20)
Authors: Ugochukwu, Françoise

Where is the Text?

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
pp. 273-283(11)
Author: Ayeleru, Babatunde

Perspectivization in Fiction

A Deictic Study of Wole Soyinka's Aké
pp. 285-299(15)
Authors: Odebunmi, Akin; Olaniyan, K.K.

On the Threshold of Combat Poetics

The Novels of Festus Iyayi
pp. 301-318(18)
Authors: Agho, Jude; Bamidele, Ayodele

Contentious Absolutism

The Public Sphere and the Imperative of Circumvention in Ngũgĩ's Wizard of the Crow
pp. 319-336(18)
Author: Olaoluwa, Senayon

Subversion and the Carnivalesque

Images of Resistance in Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow
pp. 337-361(25)
Author: Tembo, Nick Mdika

What's In a Title? A Reading of Amma Darko's The Housemaid
pp. 363-375(13)
Authors: Nsiah, Joseph; Marfo, Charles

The Problems of Perspective in Mongo

Beti's The Poor Christ of Bomba
pp. 377-398(22)
Author: Watts, Tracey

Epistolarity as Ethnography of Rebellion (or Alienation)

Western Education and its After-Effects on the Female Subject in Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter
pp. 399-422(24)
Author: Ogede, Ode

Ousmane Sembène's God's Bits of Wood

The Anatomy of a Strike and the Ideologeme of Solidarity
pp. 423-440(18)
Author: Raja, Masood Ashraf

Sex, Power, and Community in Ousmane Sembène's Véhi-Ciosane
pp. 441-454(14)
Author: Vetinde, Lifongo

Contesting the Religious Civilizing Mission of Empire in Hispanophone African Literature
pp. 455-490(36)
Author: Boampong, Joanna

Pastoral Verbal Performance and Visual Aesthetics

Brother Jero's Cape as Sign
pp. 493-502(10)
Author: Evwierhoma, Mabel I.E.

“Not a girl to meet every day“

Feminist Identity Transformation in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa
pp. 503-529(27)
Author: Raji, Wumi

Playing With History, Playing With Words

Ngũgĩ and Mugo's The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
pp. 531-542(12)
Author: Dasylva, Ademola O.

The 'Inside' Wife and the 'Outside' Wives in Ahmed Yerima's The Sisters
pp. 543-556(14)
Author: Eke, Kola

Arrah's Existential Dilemma

A Study of Anne Tanyi-Tang's Arrah
pp. 557-570(14)
Author: Ngwang, Emmanuel N.

Sameness Within Difference: Blurring 'Self' and 'Other'

Liminality in Zakes Mda's The Bells of Amersfoort
pp. 571-597(27)
Author: Mekusi, Busuyi

Areas of Shade, Areas of Darkness

Poems and Stories
pp. 601-641(41)
Author: Mtamba, Sam Raiti

Tribute to Salih
pp. 643-646(4)
Author: Lake, Edgar O.

Out of the Masks

— A Play
pp. 647-675(29)
Author: Utoh-Ezeajugh, Tracie Chima

A Literary Critic's Appraisal
pp. 679-686(8)
Author: Kehinde, Ayo

An Overlooked Medium
pp. 687-691(5)
Author: Smithson, Brian C.

Rekindling Memory
pp. 692-695(4)
Author: Boscolo, Cristina

An Alternative Cinema for the People
pp. 696-701(6)
Author: Nwankwo, Izuu

Books Received
pp. 702-702(1)

Biographical Notes
pp. 703-710(8)

Notes for Contributors
pp. 711-712(2)

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