'Renaissance' & South African writing / Lekan Oyegoke -- The changing role of poetry in the struggle for freedom, justice & equality in South Africa / Ritske Zuidema -- Dramatic excavations & theatrical explorations : Faustus, Ubu & post-apartheid South African theatre / Michael Carklin -- The stereotyping of whites in Xhosa prose fiction / C.R. Botha -- The dynamic & transformational nature of praising in contemporary Zulu society / Noleen S. Turner -- 'Structures of feeling' & constructions of history : Mazisi Kunene's Emperor Shaka the Great / Duncan Brown -- Popular songs & social realities in post-independence Zimbabwe / M.T. Vambe -- The representation of violence, the individual, history & the land in Chinodya's Harvest of thorns & Nyamfukudza's The non-believer's journey / Jo Dandy --'Speaking crystals' : the poetry of Lionel Abrahams & South African liberalism / Dan Wylie -- Personality & self-re-creation in Bessie Head's art / Sophia Obiajulu Ogwude -- Editing African literature today, 1968-2001 / Eldred Durosimi Jones -- Reviews. Violet Barungi's Cassandra, Jane Kaberuka's Silent patience, Goretti Kyomuhendo's Secrets no more, Regina Amollo's A season of mirth / Margaret Macpherson ; Mpalive-Hangson Msiska's Wole Soyinka: writers & their works / Victor I. Ukaegbu ; Osonye Tess Onwueme's The missing face: musical drama for the voices of colour / Victor I. Ukaegbu ; Festus Iyayi's Awaiting court martial / Victor I. Ukaegbu ; Chibo Onyeii's Polite questions and other poems / Victor I. Ukaegbu ; Richard Boon & Jane Plastow (eds), Theatre matters: performance and culture on the world stage / Osita Okagbue ; Edde M. Iji's Black experience in theatre vol. 1: the drama of human condition (Osita Okagbue).