Research in African Literatures Volume 30 Number 1 Number 2 Number 3Dissident Algeria Number 4Drama and Performance

CONTENTS Volume 30, Number 1 Spring 1999

Femi Osofisan Theater and the Rites of "Post-Negritude" Remembering / 1 Horst Zander Prose-Poem-Drama: "Proemdra"--"Black Aesthetics" versus "White Aesthetics" in South Africa / 12 Michael Chapman From Shaka's Court to the Trade Union Rally: Praises in a Usable Past / 34 Klazien Kruisheer Nani Alionja Nini? Who Had a Taste of What? A Sociopolitical Interpretation of Farouk Topan's Play Aliyeonja Pepo ( "A Taste of Heaven"), Dar es Salaam, 1973 / 44 Kyallo Wadi Wamitila A Rhetorical Study of Kiswahili Classical Poetry: An Investigation into the Nature and Role of Repetition / 58 Aderemi Raji-Oyelude Postproverbials in Yoruba Culture: A Playful Blasphemy / 74 Jang, Tae-Sang A Poetic Structure in Hausa Proverbs / 83 Naana Opoku-Agyemang Gender-Role Perceptions in the Akan Folktale / 116 Joseph Dong'Aroga The Idea of Democracy in African Tales / 140 Peter Simatei Versions and Inversions: Mau Mau in Kahiga's Dedan Kimathi: The Real Story / 154 COMMENTARY D. Venkal Rao A Conversation with NgUgI wa Thiong'o / 162 George Alao The Development of Lusophone Africa's Literary Magazines / 169 Marika Sherwood Engendering Racism: History and History Teachers in English Schools / 184

HOMAGE George Lang Stephen Arnold Declared "Friend of Africa" / 204 REVIEW ESSAY Stephen Gray Opening Southern African Studies Post-Apartheid / 207 Moyo Okediji Oruku Tindi Tindi: Museums and the Pseudo-Aesthetics of Primitivism / 216 BOOK REVIEWS Adele King The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction, by Rosemary Mangoly George / 233 Bernadette Cailler Poetics of Relation, by Edouard Glissant, trans. Betsy Wing / 235 Judith Mayne Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity, by Gwendolyn Audry Foster With Open Eyes: Women and African Cinema, by Kenneth W. Harrow, ed./ 238 FORUM / 241 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 241 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 243 GUIDELINES / 245

CONTENTS Volume 30, Number 2 Summer 1999

Olabiyi Babalola Yai The Path Is Open: The Legacy of Melville and Frances Herskovits in African Oral Narrative Analysis / 1 Karin Barber Quotation in the Constitution of Yorùbá Oral Texts / 17 Emevwo Biakolo On the Theoretical Foundations of Orality and Literacy / 42 Steven M. Tobias Amos Tutuola and the Colonial Carnival / 66 Kwaku A. Gyasi Writing as Translation: African Literature and the Challenges of Translation / 75 Thomas J. Kitson Tempering Race and Nation: Recent Debates in Diaspora Identity / 88 Carole Boyce Davies Beyond Unicentricity: Transcultural Black Presences / 96 Women Writers, Women's Writing Ann McElaney-Johnson Epistolary Friendship: La prise de parole in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre / 110 James M. Garrett Writing Community: Bessie Head and the Politics of Narrative / 122 Nada Elia "To Be an African Working Woman": Levels of Feminist Consciousness in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes / 136 Kwadwo Osei-Nyame Chinua Achebe Writing Culture: Representations of Gender and Tradition in Things Fall Apart / 148 Gail M. Presbey Should Women Love "Wisdom"? Evaluating the Ethiopian Wisdom Tradition / 165 Jean-Marie Volet Tradition and Modernity Are Here to Stay: An Analysis of Francophone African Women's Writings Published in 1997-98 / 182

COMMENTARY Salah D. Hassan Inaugural Issues: The Cultural Politics of the Early Présence Africaine, 1947-55 / 194 REVIEW ESSAY Adélékè Adéèkó Theory and Practice in African Orature / 222 BOOK REVIEWS Nicholas Howe Travels in Southern Africa, Vol. 2, by Adulphe Delegorgue / 228 Gregory Jusdanis Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire, by Katie Trumpener / 229 Jean Paul Koenig J. J. Rabearivelo, Literature and Lingua Franca in Colonial Madagascar, by Moradewun Adejunmobi / 232 Stephen Belcher Le riche et le pauvre et autres contes bamanan du Mali, by Annik Thoyer / 234 Bassirou Dieng Ecriture remanseque et cultures régionales au Sénégal: Des origines à 1992, by Papa Samba Diop / 234 Thomas A. Hale Massa Makan Diabaté: Un griot mandingue à la rencontre de l'ecriture, by Cheick M. Chérif Keita / 237 Stephen Belcher Récits épiques des chasseurs bamanan du Mali, by Annik Thoyer / 240 FORUM / 242 ANNOUNCEMENTS / 243 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / 244 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS / 246

CONTENTS Volume 30, Number 3 Fall 1999

SPECIAL ISSUE: DISSIDENT ALGERIA Edited by Danielle Marx-Scouras Assia Djebar RAIS, BENTALHA...A Year Later Jean Daniel Dissident Algeria Assia Djebar Blood Does Not Dry on the Tongue Tassadit Yacine Is a Genealogy of Violence Possible? Fethi Benslama Identity as a Cause Hafid Gafaïti Power, Censorship, and the Press: The Case of Postcolonial Algeria Danièle Djamila Amrane-Minne Women and Politics in Algeria from the War of Independence to Our Day Bejamin Stora Women's Writing between Two Algerian Wars John Erickson Translating the Untranslated: Djebar's Le Blanc de l'Algerie

Clarisse Zimra Sounding Off the Absent Body: Inter-textual Resonances in "La Femme qui pleure" and "La Femme en morceaux" Mildred Mortimer Coming Home: Exile and Memory in Leila Sebbar's Le Silence des rives Bernard Arésu Narrating the Tribe: Rachid Mimoumi and Dystopia Réda Bensmaïa Postcolonial Nations: Political or Poetic Allegories? Farida Abu-Haidar Angst and Rebellion in the Fiction of Amin Zaoui Edward J. Hughes Building the Colonial Archive: The Case of Camus's Le Premier Homme Hédi Abdel-Jaouad The Sands of Rhyme: Thackeray and Abd al Qadir Hédi Bouraoui Letter to the Silenced Voices

CONTENTS Volume 30, Number 4 Winter 1999

SPECIAL ISSUE: Drama and Performance Edited by John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan Wole Soyinka From Ghetto to Garrison: A Chronic Case of Orisunitis Joahnnes Fabian Theater and Anthropology, Theatricality, and Culture Isidore Okpewho Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire Loren Kruger Theater for Development and TV Nation: Notes on an Educational Soap Opera in South Africa Nicholas Brown Revolution and Recidivism: The Problem of Kenyan History in the Plays of Ngugi wa Thiong'o Tejumola Olaniyan Femi Osofisan: The Form of Uncommon Sense

Sandra L. Ricards Yoruba Gods on the American Stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone Sidibe Valy Bin-Kadi So and Dramatic Innovation Marie-Jose Hourantier Gestural Interpretation of the Occult in the Bin-Kadi So Adaptation of Macbeth Daniel Avorgbedor The Turner-Schecher Model of Performance as Social Drama: A Re-Examination in the Light of Anlo-Ewe Hal Bob W. White Modernity's Trickster: "Dipping" and "Throwing" in Congolese Popular Dance Music Pius Ngandu Nkashama Theatricality and Social Mimodrama Joachim Fiebach Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa

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