Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Dedication / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Editorial / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Introduction / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- African Children’s Literature or Literature for African Children? / Sam Mbure -- Information ou intoxication?: Le rôle du péritexte dans quelques ouvrages de romancières africaines publiés «à l'intention des jeunes» / Jean-Marie Volet -- “Who is Building the House?” Myth, Nation and Culture in African and Caribbean Children’s Literatures / Raoul Granqvist -- Three Friends. A Story / Hilde Ashuulu, Julia Aran, Ulla Mukwiilongo, and Abraham Asheelo -- Sense and Sensibility in African Children’s Play Songs: The Igede Example / Ode S. Ogede -- “Please Don’t Kill Me” Children in the Liberian Civil War / Holger Ehling -- Mes Flèches Blanches, ou Roger Nikiema et la poésie illustrée pour enfants / Salaka Sanou -- Illustrating for Children / Mabel Segun -- The Magic Fruit. A Play / Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh -- Desert Survival and Wilderness Adventures. Juvenile Literature for a Young Namibian Nation? / Andree-Jeanne Tötemeyer -- Theatre for Children in South Africa / Zakes Mda -- Dankie Auntie: A Play / Zakes Mda -- The Nigerian Children’s Literary Scene – A View from Inside / Abiola Odejide -- Children’s Literature in Nigeria: Revolutionary Omissions / Marie Linton Umeh -- The Teenage Fiction of Nwachukwu-Agbada and Eddie Iroh: The Child Protagonist and Human Development / Ezenwa Ohaeto -- Autobiography for Children: Mabel Segun’s My Father’s Daughter and My Mother’s Daughter / Jürgen Martini -- The Gift of Memory / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Three Poems / Mabel Segun -- Staying in Touch With Tradition / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- People Never Get Old. A Story / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Writing and Publishing for Children in Africa / Flora Nwapa -- There is a Child in Every Adult and an Adult in Every Child / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Six Poems / Sam Mbure -- Thèâtre de marionnettes au Togo: Dèsacralisation des traditions / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- I am Tired of Being a Fly! A Story / Mobolaji Adenubi -- Writing and Publishing in National Languages Today: The Case ofBamanankan / Robert C. Newton -- Book Reviews / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Us/Them. Translation, Transcription and Identity in Post-Colonial Literary Cultures, ed. Gordon Collier / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Theatre and Performance in Africa: Intercultural Perspectives, ed. Eckhard Breitinger / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Moving Beyond Boundaries; 1: International Dimensions of Black Women’s Writing, eds. Carole Boyce Davies and Molara Ogundipe-Leslie / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Wahlverwandtschaften – Elective Affinities. Eine Gedenkschrift. Tributes and Essays on Germanic and African Studies in Memory of Edith Ihekweazu (1941-1991), eds. Willfried F. Feuser, Marion Pape, Elias Ο. Dunu / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor. Comes the Voyager at Last: A Tale of Return to Africa / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Cheick M. Cherif Keita. Massa Makan Diabaté: Un Griot mandingue à la rencontre de l’écriture / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- A Select Index to South African Literature in English 1992, ed., coord. Julie Strauss / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Robert Pinkney: Democracy in the Third World / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Announcements / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Author’s Addresses / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini -- Acknowledgments / Raoul Granqvist and Jürgen Martini.

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