Includes bibliographical references.

Section I General perspectives -- "English does not kill": writing lives in the language of the "other" / Stella Borg Barthet -- Section II Fiction -- A stylistic analysis of the story element in Ngugi's A grain of wheat / Sarala Krishnamurthy -- Mahilet : a laboratory of stylistic experimentation / Tewodros Gebre -- Through the male eyes : gendered styles in contemporary Zambian fiction / Cheela Chilala -- Politics and stylistics of female (re)presentation in James Ng'ombe's Sugarcane with salt / Nick Mdika Tembo -- Telling lives : myth, metaphor and metafiction in Zakes Mda's Cion / Marita Wenzel -- Politics and poetics of characterization in M. G. Vassanji's The book of secrets / J. K. S. Makokha -- The invisible twin : visibility and identity in Marie-Thérèse Humbert's À l'autre bout de moi / Stephanie Cox -- Thematic design and stylistic patterns in Cameron Duodu's The gab boys / Kofi Owusu -- "We can redeem this world and make the dream real" : the utopian quest in Ben Okri's primary myths / Abiodun Adeniji -- Orality and the emergence of disrupted narrative voices in Charles Samupindi's Pawns / Maurice Taonezvi Vambe -- "Zimbolicious" : Shona-English stylistics in lyrics and literature / Flora Veit-Wild -- Section III Poetry and orature -- Repression and beyond : ideological commitment and style in Jack Mapanje's and Steve Chimombo's poetry / Reuben Makayiko Chirambo -- Oguaa aban and Cape Coast Castle : same edifice, different metaphors in the poetry of Gaddiel Acquaah and Kwadwo Opuku-Agyemang / Leonard Acquah -- Self and nature : tthe Cean dialogues / Gloria M. T. Emezue -- Transitions in South African urban poetry : the city of Johannesburg in three poems of the apartheid period / Sonja Altnöder -- Verbal fluidities and masculine anxieties of the glocal urban imaginary in Kenyan genge rap / Chris Wasike -- Section IV Drama and theatre -- Language use and identity negotiation in Cameroonian drama / Kizitus Mpoche -- Afrikaans and Afrikaner nationalism in Deon Opperman's Donkerland / Marisa Keuris -- "Neither peace nor war" : the role of theatre in re-imagining the new Eritrea / Richard Boon.