Winter/Spring 2014
Abioseh Porter, Editor
Introduction
Maureen Eke, Simon Lewis, Abioseh Porter
Tributes to Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
Nana Ayebia Clarke, Helen Chukwuma, Ernest Emenyonu, Anthonia Kalu, Bernth Lindfors, Eustace Palmer
Tributes to Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
Gabeba Baderoon, Rita Barnard, Maureen Eke, Joseph McLaren, Njabulo Ndebele, Adam Sitze
Articles
"The Story that Cannot be Told Must Not-Tell Itself": The Countemporary Slave Narratives of Nourbese Philip and Fred d'Aguiar
James McCorkle
Rights and Wrongs of Black Performers in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Bernth Lindfors
Lamine Senghor's La violation d'un pays as a Precursor to Cultural Nationalism
Brandon Guernsey
Orature as Liberation Literature: An Examination of Tiv Music and Folklore as Instruments of Liberation in Colonial Nigeria
Elizabeth Nyager
City Limits: Possibilities beyond Violence in Abdoulaye Sadji's Mimouna and Nini
Bronwyn Averett
The Everydayness of Physical Brutality and Psychological Violence in Dambudzo Marechera's House of Hunger
LaToya Jefferson-James
The Interplay of Fiction and International Law in Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love
Janice Spleth
Liberation and Commodification of a Postcolonial Author: The Case of Alain Mabanckou
Vivan Steemers
Keynote Lectures
Sub-Saharan Literatures and the Conquest of the Self
Leonora Miano
Soft Vengeance
Albie Sachs