AD, Volume 35, n° 1 & 2, 2010 - Full Issue

Abstract

Contents 

Public Sphere, Linguistic Sphericules and Discourse Communities in Africa

Ambadiang Théophile ...........................1

Rulers against Writers, Writers against Rulers: The Failed Promise of the Public Sphere in Postcolonial Nigerian Fiction

Ayo Kehinde ................................ 27

Trans-nationalizing the African Public Sphere: What Role for Trans-border Languages?

Barro Maimouna ....................... 55

Negotiating Nation-building and Citizenship through the Truth and Reconciliation Committee's 'Dramatic' Spheres: A Reading of Two Post-apartheid Plays

Busuyi Mekusi ......................... 71

The African Public Space of Dangarembga's Neria: A Site for Autochthonous Feminist Agency

Kapasula Jessie Kabwila ............... 95

'Up as a Rabbit, Down as a Lion': Socio-economic Determinants of New Idioms of Power - Visual Case Stories from Urban Adamaoua, Cameroon

Lisbet Holtedahl ........................117

Towards a New Map of Africa through Rastafari 'Works'

Niaah Jahlani ............................177

The Emergence of Public Spheres in Colonial Cameroon: The Case of Palm Wine Drinking Joints as lieux de sociabilité in Bamenda Township

Nicodemus Fru Awasom .............. 201