Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Kenneth W. Harrow -- Introduction / Editor: Kenneth W. Harrow -- A Problematic Sign of African Difference in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Reassemblage / Stephen A. Zacks -- The Mature and Older Women of African Film / Suzanne H. MacRae -- The Female Body as Symbol of Change and Dichotomy: Conflicting Paradigms in the Representation of Women in African Film / Beti Ellerson -- Three Poems from The Cows of Shambat / Taban Lo Liyong -- The Locus of Tension: Gender in Algerian Cinema / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa -- Women in Igbo-Language Videos: The Virtuous and the Villainous / J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada -- Interview with Anne Mungai / Frances Harding -- Nouveau regard, nouvelle parole: le cinéma d’Assia Djebar / Mildred Mortimer -- Visages de Femmes: Finzan et Les Soleils des Indépendances / Madeleine Borgomano -- The Unreal But Visible Line: Difference and Desire for the Other in Chocolat / William A. Vincent -- Women with Open Eyes, Women of Stone and Hammers: Western Feminism and African Feminist Filmmaking Practice / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Interview with Med Hondo / Françoise Pfaff -- Three Poems from Poèmes de la Mer /Poems of the Sea / J.B. Tati-Loutard -- Sub-Saharan African Women Filmmakers: Agendas for Research with a Filmography / Nancy J. Schmidt -- Women in African Cinema: An Annotated Bibliography / Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol -- In memoriam / James Currey -- Interview with Amryl Johnson (with an appendix on her publications) / Jana Gohrisch -- Nadine Gordimer: Writing and Being . (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1994.1 (Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 1995). 145 pages. US 18.95. ISBN 0-67496232-X / Kenneth W. Harrow -- African Literature Today 20: New Trends and Generations in African Literature , eds. Eldred Durosimi Jones and Marjorie Jones. (London: James Currey; Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1996). vi + 186pp, incl. index. £ 9.95 ISBN 0-85255-520-2 / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Mineke Schipper: Source of All Evil: African Proverbs and Sayings on Women . (Nairobi: Phoenix Publishers, 1991.) 97 pages. Price n.a. / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Manfred F. Prinz: Die kulturtragenden lnstitutionen Senegals. Zwischen kolonialem Erbe und Unabhlingigkeit . [Sozialwissenschaftliche Studien zu internationalen Problemen / Social Science Studies on International Problems; 172]. (SaarbrUcken, Fort Lauderdale: Breitenbach, 1993). 232 pages. / Kenneth W. Harrow -- David Kerr: African Popular Theatrefrom Pre-colonial Times to the Present Day . (Studies in African Literature. New Series] (London: James Currey; Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Nairobi:.East African Educational Publishers; Harare: Baobab; Cape Town: David Philip, 1995), x + 278 pages. £ 11.95. / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Jana Gohrisch. (Un)Belonging? Geschlecht, Klasse, Rasse und Ethnizitlit in der britischen Gegenwartsliteratur: Joan Rileys Romane . [Europaische HochschulschriftenlEuropean University Studies, 14; 276). (FrankfurtIMain: Peter Lang, 1994). 250 pages. DM 74.00. / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Author’s Addresses / Editor: Kenneth W. Harrow.

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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