Fall 2013/Spring 2014
Abioseh Porter, Editor
Table of Contents
Articles
Christ Symbolism in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying
C. Kenneth Pellow
From Victims to Agents: Rethinking Motherhood and Feminism
Hilary Chala Kowino
When Cairo Exploded in the Past: The Historical Fiction of Naguib Mafouz
Daniel Gover
Mali Hushinda Radhi: Challenging Fraud through Kenyan Rhetorical Art
Aaron Rosenberg
“Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum”: Justice Juxtaposed to Questions of Maturity, Community, Gender, and Moral Action in the Novels by Unity Dow
Sonja Darlington
Reconstructing History to Serve Contemporary Exigencies: Colonial Discourse in Two Adolescent Novels
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Interview
Literature, Biafra, and the Future of Achebe’s Nigeria: The Late Chinua Achebe in one of his Final Interviews
Gemma Louise Sutherland and Tom Knowles
Reviews
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, In the Name of the Mother: Reflections on Writers & Empire
Hella Bloom Cohen
How to Read a Folktale: The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar
Robert Cancel
Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa. Gail Fincham
Marie Kruger
Reading Contemporary African Literature: Critical Perspectives
Eve Eisenberg
Reading Marechera, ed. Grant Hamilton
Sonja Darlington
Palumbo-Liu, David. The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age
Jennifer Yusin
The Ethics of Dissident Desire in Southern African Writing, Dobrota Pucherová
Denise Handlarski
Elsa Joy White. Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora: Dublin, New Orleans, Paris
André Carrington
African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies, Geoff Wisner, ed.
Deborah L Klein
The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography, ed. Bernth Lindfors
Catherine Kroll
Out in Africa: Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & Cultures by Chantal Zabus
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
Breaking the Silence: South African Representations of HIV/AIDS. Ellen Grünkemeier
Jason D. Price
D. O. Fagunwa’s Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter’s Saga. Being a Translation of Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale. Trans. by Wole Soyinka.
Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith
K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents
Joya Uraizee
Camfranglais, a Glossary of Common Words, Phrases and Usages by Jean-Paul Kouega
Peter Vakunta
Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression. Sonnet H. Retmen
Vincent Williams