Acknowledgements Introduction: A Memory Trip. Partly in Tandem, Partly Quadrilogical Africa, My Africa Holger Ehling: Publishing in Africa: An Overview Brian Crow: Charisma and Leadership in African Drama Jürgen Martini: The Little White Ship Elmar Lehmann: “The Fateful 13”: Sol Plaatje and the Natives’ Land Act Andrew Martin: Come Back, Dennis Brutus! Geoffrey Davis and the Rediscovery of Apartheid-Era South African Literature Jamie S. Scott: Space, Time, Solitude: The Liberating Contradictions of Ruth First’s 117 Days Anne Fuchs: Njabulo Ndebele: From Rediscovering the ‘Ordinary’ to Redefining South African ‘Renaissance’ Brian Worsfold: To Every Miracle Its Gods: Mongane Wally Serote’s Gods of Our Time as a Post-Apartheid Perception of Black Experience Christine Matzke: Girls with Guts: Writing a South African Thriller: Angela Makholwa in Conversation Marcia Blumberg: The Politics of Hope: Engaging Lara Foot Newton’s Tshepang: The Third Testament John A Stotesbury: Rayda Jacobs’s Confessions of a Gambler as Post-Apartheid Cinema Mbongeni Malaba: Exile and Return in Kavevangua Kahengua’s Dreams M. J. Daymond: Making a ‘Home’ Elsewhere: The Letters of Bessie Head, 1963–1974 James Gibbs: The Portrait of the Artist as a Younger Traveller: A Reader’s Response to Wole Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth at Dawn Shirley Chew: Putting Freedom to the Test: Wole Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth at Dawn Bernth Lindfors: The Lion and the Jewel on BBC Radio: An Audience Survey Stella Borg Barthet: The Politics of Myth in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments Christiane Schlote: Oil, Masquerades, and Memory: Sokari Douglas Camp’s Memorial of Ken Saro–Wiwa Monika Reif–Hülser: Ways of Transition: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Controversial Strategies for Dealing with Past Violence in Societies in Transition Frank Schulze–Engler: Freedom vs. Anticolonialism in Zimbabwe: Subversions of the ‘Third Chimurenga’ Myth in African Literature Gareth Griffiths: Narrative, Identity and Social Practice in Tanzania: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Ironic Paradise Jane Plastow: Finding Children’s Voices: Using Theatre to Critique the Education System in England and Eritrea What It’s All About Richard Martin: Three poems for Geoff from around the world Jacques Alvarez-Péreyre: Les revenants/They are back! Stephen Gray: Interview with the Last Speaker Karen King–Aribisala: The Nature of Tragedy Jürgen Jansen: he made it – very much his story Peter Stummer: Stock-Taking in the Guise of Some Semantic Gymnastics: A raw poem for Geoff, in honour of Hena and Anna Coda Hamish Walker and Michael Senior: A Personal Dedication to Dr. Geoffrey Vernon Davis, or, a socialite gentleman scholar, cosmopolitan workaholic, connoisseur of fine books, films, wines, beers, and spirits Notes on Contributors

Gordon Collier has published books on translation and on Patrick White, and is the editor or co-editor of numerous critical anthologies. He is co-general editor of the book-series Cross/Cultures and of the journal Matatu. Marc Delrez teaches anglophone and comparative literature at the University of Liège. He is the author of a book on Janet Frame and co-editor (with Bénédicte Ledent) of The Contact and the Culmination (1997), a collection of essays on postcolonial literature. Anne Fuchs taught comparative literature and theatre studies at the University of Nice. She is the co-editor (with Geoff Davis) of two collections of essays on South African and Black British theatre. Bénédicte Ledent teaches English language and Caribbean literature at the University of Liège. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of books on Caryl Phillips and on Caribbean literature. Contributors: Jacques Alvarez-Péreyre, Stella Borg Barthet, Marcia Blumberg, Shirley Chew, Brian Crow, M.J. Daymond, Holger Ehling, Anne Fuchs, James Gibbs, Stephen Gray, Gareth Griffiths, Jürgen Jansen, Karen King–Aribisala, Elmar Lehmann, Bernth Lindfors, Mbongeni Malaba, Andrew Martin, Richard Martin, Jürgen Martini, Christine Matzke, Jane Plastow, Monika Reif–Hülser, Christiane Schlote, Frank Schulze–Engler, Jamie S. Scott, Michael Senior, John A Stotesbury, Peter Stummer, Hamish Walker, and Brian Worsfold.