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Table of ContentsThe Editor: Prefatory NoteOverviewsWumi Raji: Imagined Transformation: Notes on a Postcolonialism of African LiteratureSola Afolayan: African Literature: A Showcase for Africa¿s Leadership ProblemsNelson O. Fashina: Lit-Orature Development, World Peace, and the Challenges of Literary Theory/CriticismArinpe Adejumo: Thematization and Perspectivization of Conflict in Selected Yorùbá Literary GenresPoetryUdu Yakubu: Paths of Revolutionary Contestation: Wole Soyinka¿s Poetry and the Dialectic of Liberal HumanismSule E. Egya: The Aesthetic of Rage in Recent Nigerian Poetry in English: Olu Oguibe and Ogaga IfowodoOgaga Okuyade: The Cumulative Neglect of Collective Responsibility: Postcoloniality, Ecology and the Niger Deltascape in the Poetry of Tanure OjaideReuben Makayiko Chirambo: ¿Vipers Who Minute Our Twitches¿: Psychopaths That Served Banda¿s Malawian Dictatorship in Jack Mapanje¿s Prison PoetryGordon S.K. Adisa: Bringing Hinduism to Bear on the Ghanaian Situation: Ladé Wosornu¿s Artistry as a Call for Spiritual RenewalKenneth Usongo: Cultural Identity and Literature: A Study of Okot p¿Bitek¿s Song of LawinoFictionAugustine H. Asaah: Towards the Retrieval of the Lost Voice: Contestation and Reclamation of Discourse in Half a Century of African Women¿s Europhone FictionAyo Kehinde: Rulers Against Writers, Writers Against Rulers: The Failed Promise of the Public Sphere in Postcolonial Nigerian FictionFrançoise Ugochukwu: A Lingering Nightmare: Achebe, Ofoegbu, and Adichie on BiafraBabatunde Ayeleru: Where is the Text? Chinua Achebe¿s Things Fall ApartAkin Odebunmi & K.K. Olaniyan: Perspectivization in Fiction: A Deictic Study of Wole Soyinka¿s AkéJude Agho & Ayodele Bamidele: On the Threshold of Combat Poetics: The Novels of Festus IyayiSenayon Olaoluwa: Contentious Absolutism: The Public Sphere and the Imperative of Circumvention in Ngugi¿s Wizard of the CrowNick Mdika Tembo: Subversion and the Carnivalesque: Images of Resistance in Ngugi wa Thiong¿o