Editorial by Emma O’Shaughnessy and Reinier Vriend

‘My generation and yours’: SAWIP Leadership Address by Johnny Steinberg

Questioning tradition through experiments between African and western music by Lukas Ligeti

Debunking the post-2000 masculinisation of political power in Zimbabwe : an approach to John Eppel’s novel Absent: The English Teacher by Oliver Nyambi

A culture of resistance: Vera’s Nehanda and Butterfly Burning by Corwin Mhlalo

Performing subversion’: youth and active citizenship in Zimbabwean protest theatre by Muwona Ngonidzashe

Sexuality and madness: versions and subversions in Calixthe Beyala’s Femme nue Femme noire and Paulina Chiziane’s Niketche: Uma história de poligamia by Margret Chipara and Gibson Ncube

Mixing soccer and sexually ‘subversive’ identities: issuing a form of representational counter-culture able to challenge hegemonic gender relations in contemporary South Africa? by Kate Joseph

A memorial or an anti-memorial? A photographic essay of the memorial cemetery park in Swakopmund, Namibia by Chandra Frank

The Coolitude of Coolietude: The (re)negotiation of the Indian Identity in Mauritius by Teena Dewoo

Beyond dualist ontology: A note of caution on the use of the concept of “Agency” by Justin Dixon

Book review:  The Great Agony and Laughter of the Gods (Jamala Safari) by Ruth Brown

Cultural Review: Pan African Space Station (PASS) by Emma Arogundade

List of Contributors 

1. Revisiting Rigour and Relevance by Lennon Mhishi

2. Deconstructing Eurocentric Education:  A Comparative Study by Neo Lekgotla Laga Ramoupi

3. Debating Relevance: African Literature in Politics and Education by Ruth Browne

4. Archives of Troubled Childhoods in Contemporary African Fiction by Edgar Nabutanyi

5. Postcolonial Cityscapes by Teena Dewoo

6. Researching Memories of War in Rural Mozambique: Photographic Essay by Lily Bunker

7. Gather My Blood Rivers of Song: Book Review by Philip Aghoghovwia

8. Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa by Deika Mohamed

9. List of Contributors 

The latest edition centres on what it means to write about, to or from the continent of Africa. We have hoped to raise questions about the epistemological, philosophical and socio-political implications of writing– as a technology and as a mode of cultural production in Africa, by addressing the place that texts and writing have in Africa’s social, cultural and political landscape.
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1. Editorial by Natasha Himmelman and Emma O’Shaughnessy

2. If I could write this in Fire/ African Feminist Ethics for Research in Africa by Danai S. Mupotsa

3. Imagining African Studies in Africa by Charles Kebaya

4. Imagining African Studies in Zimbabwe: Contextualising the Conundrum by Lennon Mhishi

5. Ajenda Afrika: African Studies in Kenya? by Muoki wa Mbunga

6. Book Review: Do ‘Zimbabweans’ Exist? Trajectories of Nationalism, National Identity Formation and Crisis in a Postcolonial
Nation by Danai Mupotsa

7. List of Contributors

1. Editorial by Emma O’Shaughessy

2. Emigration, Photography, and Writing in J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man by Donald Powers

3. An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Chichewa Loan Words of Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers of Chichewa by Atikonda Mtenje

4. ‘Splinters in the Eyes’– Reading the Metropoetics of Crisis in Post-apartheid Johannesburg Fictions by Emma O’Shaughnessy

5. On the matter of bodies: Mapping the terrain by Emma Druyan

6. “You become someone other than yourself when you live in isolation or live separated from those that meant a lot to you”: Xenophobia, the South African, and narratives of nation in ‘Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon’ by Grace Kim

1. Editorial by Emma O’Shaughnessy

2. “It’s a matter of the choices you want to make”: Literal and symbolic Africa in Isidore Okpewho’s ‘Call Me By My Rightful Name’ by Carlo Germeshuys

3. Culture, Politics and the State by Kelly J. Rosenthal

4. Kant, Fabian and Achebe: From the Enlightenment to Colonialism: Time, discourse and the temporal Other by Emma O’Shaughnessy

5. The Palm Stone as Non-site in the ‘Long Silence of Mario Salviati’ by Karen Jennings

6. Kwaito Culture and The Body: Nonpolitics in a Black Atlantic Context by Micah Salkind

7. Photo Essay: Indoctrination by Seton Nicholas

8. Book Review: ‘The Last Villains of Molo’ by Natasha Himmelman

9. Review Essay: Atonement: the Necessity of Reconciliation by Nyoko Muvangua

10. List of Contributors

1. Editorial by Emma O’Shaughnessy

2. African urban discourse: invisible and reflexive practice in African cities by Emma O’Shaughnessy

3. Walking the City: Movement and Space in Peter Abrahams’ Mine Boy by Megan Jones

4. Recreating the African City in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying by Megan Cole Paustian

5. ‘Diseased Dystopias’?: HIV/AIDS and the South African City in ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Tsotsi’ by Rebecca Hodes

6. Crisis Averted by Clare Butcher

7. Twin Town by Svea Josephy

8. Photo Essay: Soft City by Emma O’Shaughnessy

9. Book Review: ‘City Futures: Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development‘ by Sian Butcher

10. Book Review: ‘Lagos: a City at Work’ by Deborah-Fey Ndlovu

11. List of Contributors

1. Editorial by Gerard Ralphs

2. Representing Madness: Ambivalence in Chinua Achebe’s ‘Arrow of God’ by Natasha Himmelman

3. Binary and the Bushmen: Counting the Cost of the Code by Siona O’Connell

4. Indigenous Languages for Culture, Science and Technology in Africa: On the Contributions of Lexicography and Terminology Development by Dion Nkomo

5. The Challenges of Using Weblogs for Learning in Tertiary Settings in Africa by Patient Rambe

6. World Wide Webs: Social Movements Cross Global Divides in the Public Cyber-Sphere by Liezl Coetzee

7. Photo Essay: Pioneering in Urban Green Living: Johannesburg’s Greenhouse Project by Emma O’Shaughnessy

8.1 In Conversation: Talking Between Generations: Issues in the Interpretation of Science and Technology in Africa with Siân Butcher and Grace Ayensu

8.2.Accompanying Chapter

9. Book Review: ‘A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility and White South Africa, 1820-2000′ by Gregory Solik

10. Book Review: ‘Three Letter Plague’ by Emma O’Shaughnessy

11. List of Contributors

1. Editorial by Gerard Ralphs, Louise Green, Eva Franzidis, Emma O’ Shaughnessy, Natasha Himmelman, Rushil Ranchod, Grace Ayensu, Anne Viken, and Bongani Kona

2. Lecture delivered by the president of South Africa on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, University of Cape Town, 12 September 2007 by Thabo Mbeki

3. The contribution of Achille Mbembe to the multi-disciplinary study of Africa by Gerard Ralphs

4. The Accidental Activist: Reading Zakes Mda’s ‘The Heart of Redness’ as a parody of the disappointed African intellectual by Erik Peeters

5. Constructing African realities: Genre-crossing and the city in representations of Africa on screen by Sarah Jones

6. Indians in East Africa: Literature, homelessness, and the imaginary by Chandani Patel

7. Book Review: ‘Odyssey to Freedom’ by Gerard Ralphs

8. An excerpt from the University of Cape Town’s Centre for African Studies Permanent Artwork Collection Catalogue?; photographs by Brett Rubin, text by Eva Franzidis

9. List of Contributors