The lion in literature / Nadine Gordimer -- If all stories ...! / Nuruddin Farah -- Le regard lointain / Assia Djebar -- The far-off gaze / Assia Djebar ; translated by Clarisse Zimra -- Living in four worlds: English, French, science, and letters / Emmanuel Dongala -- Translating the ideophone: perspectives and strategies of translators and artists / Philip A. Noss -- A postcolonial grammar of translation: Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart as a metonymic text / Raoul J. Granqvist -- Orality into literacy: modes of modernity and history in Kouyaté's Keẗa!: L'héritage du griot and Mambety's La petite vendeuse de soleil / Ann Elizabeth Willey -- Mongo Beti et la français africain / André Djiffack -- Achebe, Soyinka, and other-languagedness / Gillian Gane -- Ahmadou Kourouma: translation and interpretation as narrative configurations in the African text / Kwaku A. Gyasi -- Their voices cry out from the Earth: the Rwandan genocide in the West African imagination / Lisa McNee -- The devouring ogre of history: Tahar Djaout on the writing of history / Michael A. Toler -- Paul Bowles and Islam / Christopher Wise.