Postcolonial postmodernity in Henri Lopes's Le pleurer-rire / Koffi Anyinefa -- Post-modern or post-colonial? Magic realism in Okri's The famished road / Anjali Roy -- Landscapes of forgetfulness: reinventing the historical in Ben Okri's The famished road / Eleni Coundouriotis -- A feminist reading of Ellen Kuzwayo's Call me woman / Carmela Garritano -- Southern Africa, womanism, and postcoloniality: a dialectical approach / Lindsey Pentolfe Aegerter -- Violence and representation: the slave-woman's body in Maryse Condé's Ségou / Brinda Mehta -- Out of print: the epic cassette as intervention, reinvention, and commodity / Robert C. Newton -- Post-marked Nairobi: writing the city in contemporary Kenya / J. Roger Kurtz -- Two esthetic visions of La rue case-nègres: novel and film / Hal Wylie -- Ayi Kwei Armah's Achimota writings / Bernth Lindfors.