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 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

1. Editorial by Danai S. Mupotsa

2. Among the Believers by Joseph Chikowero

3. Burning down London Bridge: England and Africa in the Shaping of Kamau Brathwaite by Mitzie Jacqueline Reid

4. Pleasure and Danger: Women, alcohol use and dance in club spaces by Gugu McLaren

5. Defending Feminism in Africa by Simi Dosekun

6. Contemporary Slavery: Sex trafficking in South Africa and suggested solutions by Luke Hilton

7. Book review: ‘A City Imagined: Cape Town and the meanings of a place’ by Emma O’Shaughnessy

8. Minding the Gap: Traversing the literary – the literary as methodology and epistemology by Roshan Cader

9. An African feminist standpoint? by Danai S. Mupotsa

10. List of Contributors

1. Editorial by Louise Green, Eva Franzidis, Natasha Himmelman, Anna Luty, Noëleen Murray, Rushil Ranchod, Daniel Steyn, Monique Whitaker and Kim Wildman

2. Africa, old and new: Guy Butler and the ‘African renaissance– a long view’ by Chris Thurman

3. South African English in the post-apartheid era: hybridization in Zoe Wicomb’s ‘David’s Story’ and Ivan Vladislavic’s ‘The Restless Supermarket‘ by Saffron Hall

4. Perceptions of Employment Equity implementation at a major South African multi-national corporation by Christina Jongens

5. Deterritorialised Blackness: (Re) making coloured identities in South Africa by Janette Yarwood

6.a Beyond the colour range: a reading of the photographic works of Zwelethu Mthethwa by Milia Lorraine Khoury

6.b Beyond the colour range: accompanying illustrations

7. Book Review: ‘Of Wild Dogs’ by Gerard Ralphs

8.a Heritage and Memory in Cape Town: Writing a database for Cape Town’s memory project by Christian Ernsten

8.b. Accompanying list of organisations

9. List of Contributors