CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

• Jane Plastow

TRIBUTE

• ELLEKE BOEHMER, Nelson Rohihlahla Mandela

POETRY

• OKINBA LAUNKO, Two Trees Came Into My Garden
• MILDRED BARYA, October, Going Home, The Sink
• SUSAN KIGULI, Guilty, Tulips, Amin is Dead

FICTION

• ALEMSEGED TESFAI, The Day Weki Burned

DRAMA

• MÁRIO LÚCIO SOUSA, Alone Onstage

  Translated from Portuguese by Christina S. McMahon & Eunice S. Ferreira

ARTICLES

• CHRISTINA S. MCMAHON, Of Gender, Governance, and Goats: Locating

  Mário Lúcio Sousa's Unorthodox Drama in Cape Verdean Culture

• CHUKWUMA OKOYE, 'Contemporary Dance, not African Dance':

  The Question of a Contemporary Nigerian Dance

• NGUGI WA THIONG'O, The Language of Scholarship in Africa

• BRENDON NICHOLLS, History, Intertextuality, and Gender in

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood

• JANE PLASTOW, Interrogations of Law and State Legitimacy in the Theatre

  and Life of Ngu~gi~ wa Thiong'o

• SUSAN NALUGWA KIGULI, Divine Inspiration and Healing:

  Oral Poetry and Music in Uganda and South Africa

• ANDREA GRANT, 'Bye-bye Nyakatsi':

  Life through Song in Post-Genocide Rwanda

INTERVIEW

• HO JIA XUAN & REBECCA LIM with Tash Aw

REVIEW

• by Michelle Chiang

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS