Research in African Literatures Volume 29 Number 1 Number 2 Number 3 Number 4The African Diaspora

CONTENTS Volume 29, Number 1 Spring 1998

Isidore Okpewho African Mythology and Africa's Political Impasse / 1 Bruce Berman and John M. Lonsdale The Labors of Muigwithania: Jomo Kenyatta as Author, 1928-45 / 16 Stephen Belcher Heroes at the Borderline: Bamana and Fulbe Traditions in West Africa / 43 Roger Little The "Couple Domino" in the Writings of Olympe Bhêly-Quenum / 66 Graham Furniss Hausa Creative Writing in the 1930s: An Exploration in Postcolonial Theory / 87 Janice Spleth Narrating Ethnic Conflict in Zairian Literature / 103 Abasi Kiyimba The Ghost of Idi Amin in Ugandan Literature / 124 Byron Caminero-Santangelo Neocolonialism and the Betrayal Plot in A Grain of Wheat / 139 Chris Dunton Sologa, Eneka, and the Supreme Commander: The Theater of Ken Saro-Wiwa / 153 Jacqueline Bardloph Dreams and Identity in the Novels of Nuruddin Farah / 163 COMMENTARY Sanya Osha Writing in a Continent under Siege / 174 Antonio Benítez-Rojo The Role of Music in the Emergence of Afro-Cuban Culture / 179 S. Ekema Agbaw The Dog in Breeches: Conrad and an African Pedagogy / 185

IN MEMORIAM Milton Krieger Thomas Melone / 197 Chantal Zabus Albert S. Gérard / 199 Fernando Lambert Mohamadou Kane / 201 REVIEW ESSAYS Molefi Kete Asante Black Athena Revisited: A Review Essay / 206 Gaurav Desai Postcolonial Criticism in an African (ist) Frame / 211 Ikechukwu Okafor-Newsum Africa in the African-American Imagination: Perspectives from the Motherland / 219 BOOK REVIEWS Edna Aizenberg Thresholds of Change in African Literature: The Emergence of a Tradition, by Kenneth W. Harrow / 231 C. L. Innes Inventing Ireland, by Declan Kiberd / 233 EXHIBITION REVIEW Hélène Tissières Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History, exhibition curated by Mary Nooter Roberts / 237

CONTENTS Volume 29, Number 2 Summer 1998

Emmanuel Mudhiwa Chiwome The Interface of Orality and Literacy in the Zimbabwean Novel / 1 Matthew Engelke Thinking about Nativism in Chenjerai Hove's Work / 23 Wilson Atem Ebot Language and Action in Kenjo Jumbam's Prose Narratives / 43 Philip Adédótun Ogúndèjì The Image of Sàngó in Duro Ladipo's Plays / 57 Shaun Irlam Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre: The Vocation of Memory and the Space of Writing / 76 Deidre Bádéjo African Feminism: Mythical and Social Power in the Orature and Literature of Women of African Descent / 94 Dickson Eyoh Social Realist Cinema and Representations of Power in African Nationalist Discourse / 112

Sylvie Kandé Look Homeward, Angel: Maroons and Mulattos in Haile Gerima's Sankofa / 128 Joseph Gugler and Oumar Cherif Diop The Two Incarnations of Ousmane Sembène's Xala and Their Audiences / 147 INTERVIEWS Christopher Wise In Search of Yambo Ouologuem / 159 Phyllis Clark Sony Labou Tansi and Congolese Politics: An Interview with Jean Clotaire Hymboud / 183 Stephen Gray Interview with Edouard Maunick / 193 BOOK REVIEWS / 198 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 237 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 238 GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS / 241

CONTENTS Volume 29, Number 3 Fall 1998

Maryse Condé O Brave New World / 1 Koffi Anyinefa Postcolonial Postmodernity in Henri Lopes's Le pleurer-rire / 8 Lydie Moudileno Labou Tansi's La vie et demie, or The Tortuous Path of the Fable / 21 Sélom Komlan Gbanou Dramatic Esthetics in the Work of Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou / 34 Leif Lorentzon The Narratee of Two of Ayi Kwei Armah's Novels: A Use of Narratology / 58 Sophia Obiajulu Ogwude Protest and Commitment in Bessie Head's Utopia / 70 Chiji Akoma Folklore and the African-Caribbean Narrative Imagination: The Example of Roy Heath / 82 Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi Bernard Dadié: Literary Imagination and New Historiography / 98 Jonathan Haynes and Onookome Okome Evolving Popular Media: Nigerian Video Films / 106 COMMENTARY Carol Sicherman Revolutionizing the Literature Curriculum at the University of East Africa: Literature and the Soul of a Nation / 129 Ambroise Kom African Absence: A Literature without a Voice / 149

REVIEW ESSAYS K. Martial Frindéthié Tracing a Theoretical Gesture: Patrick Taylor and Ato Sekyi-Otu Reading Fanon / 162 Kenneth W. Harrow "I'm not a Western feminist but . . . "--A Review of Recent Critical Writings on African Women's Literature / 171 Cilas Kemedjio When the Detour Leads Home: The Urgency of Memory and the Liberation Imperative from Aimé Césaire to Frantz Fanon / 191 TRIBUTES Robert Elliot Fox Tutuola and the Commitment to Tradition / 203 Said S. Samatar Remembering B. W. Andrzejewski: Poland's Somali Genius / 208 BOOK REVIEWS / 220 FORUM / 240 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 242 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 243 GUIDELINES / 245

CONTENTS Volume 29, Number 4 Winter 1998

THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AND ITS ORIGINS Polly T. Rewt, Editor F. Abiola Irele Editorial / 1 Polly T. Rewt Introduction: The African Diaspora and Its Origins / 3 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Maria Wolff An Overview of Sources on the Life and Work of Juan Latino, the "Ethiopian Humanist" / 14 Margaret M. Olsen Negros horros and cimarrones on the Legal Frontiers of the Caribbean: Accessing the African Voice in Colonial Spanish American Texts" / 52 Vincent Carretta Three West Indian Writers of the 1780s Revisited and Revised / 73 Sukdev Sandhu Ignatius Sancho and Laurence Sterne / 88 Alan Rice "Who's Eating Whom": The Discourse of Cannibalism in the Literature of the Black Atlantic from Equiano's Travels to Toni Morrison's Beloved / 107 Gail Low "A Chorus of Common Memory": Slavery and Redemption in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge and Crossing the River / 122

REVIEW ESSAYS Alasdair Pettinger Enduring Fortresses--A Review of The Black Atlantic by Paul Gilroy / 142 Jim Mabon Europe's African Heritage in the Creative Work of Maud Sulter / 149 Demetrius L. Eudell A New Kind of Freedom: Some Notes on the Transformative Thought of C.L.R. James / 156 BOOK REVIEWS / 174 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 222 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 223 EVALUATORS--1997-1978/ 225 INDEX TO VOLUME 29 / 226

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