Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Geoffrey V. Davis -- Introduction / Geoffrey V. Davis -- Freedom, Femininity, Adventure and Romance: The Elements of Self-Presentation in Melina Rorke, Told By Herself / M.J. Daymond -- The Market Theatre: Drama for a new society? Targeting the Spectator / Anne Fuchs -- From Soweto to Gorée: A South African Writer in Search of the African Heritage / Geoffrey V. Davis -- Women Journeying at the South African Margins: Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca / Marcia Blumberg -- The Voyage Out: Exile, Escape and Obligation in Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction / Rowland Smith -- Aimé Césaire / Maishe Maponya -- A Homage to Peter Abrahams / Armando Pajalich -- Voyages in J.M. Coetzee’s Novels: Narrative Conquests in Foe , Narrative Exploration in Age Of Iron / Rosemary Jolly -- Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta: Voyagers / Helen Cooper -- Sex and Drugs in the Caribbean: Ferry to Port Royal (1992) / Stephen Gray -- A New Phase / Maishe Maponya -- The End of the Historical Player / Thomas Brückner -- Three Haikus / Dennis Brutus -- On a knife edge / Geoffrey V. Davis and Holger G. Ehling -- “A life insurance against death” / Thomas Brückner -- “Getting back to writing” / James Munnik and Geoffrey V. Davis -- Levelling the Playing Fields / Geoffrey V. Davis and Holger G. Ehling -- The Transitional Politics of Human Rights / Wole Soyinka -- Theatre and Political Mobilisation: Case Studies from Uganda / Eckhard Breitinger -- Ola Rotimi and Wole Soyinka at UNIFE: A Newspaper Controversy / Bernth Lindfors -- An-Other Travelogue: Ferdinand Dennis’s Journey into Afro-Britain / Peter O. Stummer -- “La présence de la nature en nous” / par Gunter Reus -- Book Reviews Leroy Vail/Landeg White: Power and the Praise Poem. Southern African Voices in History. (London: Currey, 1991). xv + 345 pages. £ 11.95 Pb.;£ 30 cloth. / Ode S. Ogede -- Martin Orkin: Drama and the South African State. (Manchester: Manchester University Press; Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. 1991), vii + 263 pages. £ 9.95. / Christopher Balme -- John Laband: Kingdom in Crisis. The Zulu Response to the British Invasion of 1879. (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1992), 272 pages. / Geoffrey V. Davis -- Putting Women on the Agenda , ed. Susan Bazilli. (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1991). 290 pages. / Ingrid Schiro -- Leonard Thompson: A History of South Africa. (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1992). 288 pages. £ 9.95; 15. / Geoffrey V. Davis -- Jane Wilkinson: Talking with African Writers: Interviews with African Poets Playwrights and Novelists. (London: James Currey: Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann). iv + 220 pages, £ 9.95. / Eldred Ibibiem Green -- Peter Junge: Bibliographie deutscher Kolonialzeitschriften. [Veröffentlichungen aus dem Übersee-Museum Bremen; C 3]. (Bremen: Übersee-Museum, 1985), viii +113 pages. / Wolfgang Zimmer -- Collectif “Changer le Cameroun”: Le Cameroun éclaté? Anthologie commenée des revendications ethniques. (Yaoundé Édition C3, 1992) 595 pages. / André Djiffack -- Jacqueline Kaye/Abdelhamid Zoubir: The Ambiguous Compromise. Language, Literature and National Identity in Algeria and Morocco. (London, New York: Routledge, 1990). 141 pages / Ulrike Jamin -- Announcements / Editor: Geoffrey V. Davis.

Matatu is a journal on African literatures and societies dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogue between literary and cultural studies, historiography, the social sciences and cultural anthropology. Matatu is animated by a lively interest in African culture and literature (including the Afro-Caribbean) that moves beyond worn-out clichés of "cultural authenticity" and "national liberation" towards critical exploration of African modernities. The East African public transport vehicle from which Matatu takes its name is both a component and a symbol of these modernities: based on "Western" (these days usually Japanese) technology, it is a vigorously African institution; it is usually regarded with some anxiety by those travelling in it, but is often enough the only means of transport available; it creates temporary communicative communities and provides a transient site for the exchange of news, storytelling, and political debate. Matatu is firmly committed to supporting democratic change in Africa, to providing a forum for interchanges between African and European critical debates, to overcoming notions of absolute cultural, ethnic, or religious alterity, and to promoting transnational discussion on the future of African societies in a wider world. Matatu will be published as journal as of 2016. All back volumes are still available in print.

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