Introduction

exploitation, colonialism, and postcolonial misrule in Africa

Kenneth Kalu, Toyin Falola

1-23

Rupturing neocolonial legacies in the African novel

ngugi wa thiong"o's matigari as a paradigm

Damlègue Lare

27-50

Decolonial visions in mid-twentieth-century African rhetoric

perspectives from Kwame Nkrumah's consciencism

Nancy Henaku

51-75

Images of colonialism in the text of two African female poets

Gabriel Bámgbóṣé

77-99

Migration and exile

the exotic essence of life in Bessie Head's When rain clouds gather

Joshua Agbo

101-124

Ingrid de Kok's "A room full of questions" and South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission

Michael Sharp

125-143

Identity, the "passing" novel, and the phenomenology of "race"

Logan

145-161

Precolonial imaginaries and colonial legacies in Mobutu's "authentic" Zaïre

Daviel Lazure Vieira

165-190

World War II and West African soldiers in Asia, 1943–1947

Oliver Coates

191-215

A colonizing agricultural company in Somalia

the Duke of Abruzzi's Società agricola Italo-Somala in the Italian colonial fascist system

Alberto Cauli

217-241

The magical hour of midnight

the annual commemorations of Rhodesia's and Transkei's independence days

Josiah Brownell

243-276

Colonial ideologies and the emergence of two spaces

the Nigerian experience

Bright Alozie Chiazam

277-293