Dedication

pp vii-vii

Stop Press/ Tribute To Nadine Gordimer 1923–2014

pp viii-viii

Contents

pp ix-xi

Notes on Contributors

pp xii-xiv

Editorial Article: Fiction & Socio-Political Realities in Africa: What Else Can Literature Do?

pp 1-6

The Novel as an Oral Narrative Performance: The Delegitimization of the Postcolonial Nation in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Matigari Ma Njirũũngi

pp 7-19

Abiku in Ben Okri’s Imagination of Nationhood: A Metaphorical Interpretation of Colonial-Postcolonial Politics

pp 20-32

Refracting the Political: Binyavanga Wainaina’s One Day I Will Write About This Place

pp 33-46

Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Resolutionaries: 47 Exoteric Fiction, the Common People & Social Change in Post-Colonial Africa – A Critical Review

pp 47-57

In Quest of Social Justice: 58 Politics & Women’s Participation in Irene Isoken Salami’s More Than Dancing

pp 58-76

Breaking the Laws in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus – Philosophy & the Notion of Justice

pp 77-90

The Rhetoric & Caricature of Social Justice in Post-1960 Africa: A Logical Positivist Reading of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Matigari

pp 91-103

‘Manhood’ in Isidore Okpewho’s The Last Duty: Authenticity or Accountability?

pp 104-119

Remembering Kofi Awoonor (13 March 1935–21 September 2013)

pp 120-120

Kofi Awoonor: In Retrospect

pp 121-134

Kofi Awoonor: Poem for a Mentor & Friend

pp 135-136

Looking Death in the Eye: The Human Condition, Morbidity & Mortality in Kofi Awoonor’s Poetry

pp 137-150

Eulogy for an Artist, a Statesman, a Teacher & Friend: Kofi Awoonor

pp 151-157

Postcolonial Trauma & the Poetics of Remembering 158 the Novels of Kofi Awoonor

pp 158-172

Song for Nyidevu

pp 173-173

Reviews

pp 174-197