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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

OF AFRICAN LITERARY

AND COMPARATIVE

STUDIES

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

OF AFRICAN LITERARY

AND COMPARATIVE

STUDIES

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Articles

The rediscovery of self: the clarification of the tragic human experience of oppression through the depiction of

conflict and credible characterisation in Njabulo S. Ndebele's Fools & other stories

Marc Schulman ........................................................................................................................................................... 3

'Before the poets could speak': a discussion of selected black-authored and white-authored pre-independence

Zimbabwean poems

Rosemary Moyana ...................................................................................................................................................... 11

The re-articulation of hope from grief: Nigerian Civil War poetry as ledger

Ogaga Okuyade .......................................................................................................................................................... 27

Beyond (?) feminism: signs of a 'gylanic resurgence' in the South African poetry of the Feela Sistah!

spoken word collective

Raphael d'Abdon ......................................................................................................................................................... 42

The 'surplus value' of the Rwanda genocide in Romeo Dallaire's film A good man in hell (2002)

Urther Rwafa ............................................................................................................................................................... 64

Strategies of surviving HIV and AIDS: Lutanga Shaba's Secrets of a woman's soul

Anna Chitando ............................................................................................................................................................. 72

Historical transformations and contemporary realities in Mathew Umukoro's Nana Olomu: a historical play

Ogaga Okuyade........................................................................................................................................................... 92

Discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self identity and nation in Ian Douglas Smith's

Bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and Peter Godwin's Mukiwa – a white boy in Africa

Tasiyana D. Javangwe................................................................................................................................................. 105

Pursuing the humanity of the subalterns on the farm in Zimbabwean literature

Erick Nyoni and Salachi Naidoo ................................................................................................................................... 124

'Silence in court!': Non-verbal communication in a Zimbabwean court of law

Umali Saidi and Charles Pfukwa................................................................................................................................... 136

Book and film reviews

Review of: J. Wawrzinek and J.K.S. Makokha (eds.). 2011. Negotiating Afropolitanism: essays on borders and

spaces in contemporary African literature and folklore.

Raphael d'Abdon (University of.... )................................................................................................................................ 149

Review of: C. Magwaro. 2009. A season's assemblage.

Mzukisi Lento (English Studies, University of South Africa)........................................................................................... 152

Re-reading, re-configuring and contesting the black body in the 21st century

Phomolo Mosito (University of Johannesburg).............................................................................................................. 158

Review of: P.D. Gqola. 2010. What is slavery to me? Postcolonial/Slave memory

in post-apartheid South Africa.

Isaac Ndlovu (University of Cape Town) ........................................................................................................................ 162

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