Concepts of exile in Dambudzo Marechera's early works / Annie H. Gagiano -- Mindblasts: narrative technique & iconography of sexual stereotyping as patterns of defilement/cleansing in Bessie Head's A question of power & Dambudzo Marechera's The house of hunger / David Kerr -- Shriek of nerves: the rational voice of Dennis Brutus & the poetry of exile in Salutes and censures / Ezenwa-Ohaeto -- Culturo-textual exile: the changing 'faces' of African poetry / Lekan Oyegoke -- Shades of home & exile in Ayi Kwei Armah's novels / Nnadozie Inyama -- Crisis of filiation: exile & return in John Munonye's Triology / Amechi Nicholas Akwanya -- An exile writing on home: protest & commitment in the works of Bessie Head / Sophia O. Ogwude -- Changing states: exile & syncretism in Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde / Ana Mar©Ưa S©Łnchez Arce -- Exile & the female imagination: the Nigeria Civil War, western ideology (feminism), & the poetry of Catherine Acholonu / Ode S. Ogede

Reviews. Abdourahman Ali Waberi's L'Oeil nomade -- Maishe Maponya's Doing plays for a change ; At the junction: four plays by the Junction Avenue Theatre Company ; Barney Simon's Born in the RSA ; Zakes Mda's And the girls in their sunday dresses -- Chirikure Chirikure's Hakurarwi ; Charles Mungoshi's The miklman doesn't only deliver milk ; Chenjerai Hove's Rainbows in the dust ; Zimbabwe women writers' Poetry & short stories -- Bernth Lindfors's Conversations with Chinua Achebe ; Ezenwa-Ohaeto's Chinua Achebe: a biography -- R.E. Obeng's Eighteenpence ; Ama Ata Aidoo's The girl who could and other stories / Amma Darko's The housemaid -- Chukwuemeka Ike's To my husband from Iowa ; Femi Olugbile's Batolica -- Rayda Jacob's Eyes of the sky ; W.P.B. Botha's A duty of memory

S.N. Ndunguru's A wreath for Father Mayer of Masasi ; A.M. Hokororo's Salma spirit ; Charles Mungoshi's Walking still: nine short stories ; Julius Ocwinyo's Fate of the Banished -- Sue Kossew's Pen and power: a post-colonial reading of J.M. Coetzee & Andre Brink -- Hans M. Zell's The electric African bookworm: a web navigator -- Arthur Gakwandi's Kosiya Kifefe ; Alexander Kanegoni's Echoing silence ; Yvonne Vera's Butterfly burning ; Marjorie O. Macgoye's Make it sing and other poems -- F.M. Genga Idowu's My heart on trial ; Barbara Kimenyi's Beauty queen ; Ciarunji Chesaina's Oral literature of the Ember and Mbeere ; J. Roger Kurtz's Urban obsessions, urban fears