Preface Wale Adebanwi
1. The writer as social thinker Wale Adebanwi
2. Literature, trauma and the African moral imagination J. Roger Kurtz
3. The infrapolitics of subordination in Patrice Nganang’s Dog Days Moradewun Adejunmobi
4. Imagining a dialectical African modernity: Achebe’s ontological hopes, Sembene’s machines, Mda’s epistemological redness Melissa Tandiwe Myambo
5. Sexual/textual politics: rethinking gender and sexuality in gay Moroccan literature Gibson Ncube
6. Against epistemic totalitarianism: the insurrectional politics of Bessie Head Shiera S. el-Malik
7. The Writer as ‘Ragpicker’: The Auratic Power of the Mundane in Nadine Gordimer's Recent Fiction Ileana Dimitriu
8. African being and cultural project Leonard Stone
Biography
Wale Adebanwi is Associate Professor in African American and African Studies at the University of California-Davis, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and another in social anthropology from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, UK, where he was a Bill and Melinda Gates Scholar. He is the author of Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obáfemi Awólowo and Corporate Agency (2014).
