Preserving the Landscape of Imagination: Children’s Literature in Africa: Matatu, cartea 17-18

”… an ambitious book … rich in information … it definitely has a useful place in the growing body of scholarship on children’s literature in Africa.” in: Research in African Literatures, Vol. 32, Nr. 1, Spring 2001

DEDICATION. EDITORIAL. INTRODUCTION. ARTICLES. Sam MBURE: African Children's Literature or Literature for African Children? Jean-Marie VOLET: Information ou in-toxication?: Le rôle du péritexte dans quelques ouvrages de romancières africaines publiés «à l'intention des jeunes». Raoul GRANQVIST: Who is Building the House? Myth, Nation and Culture in African and Caribbean Children's Literatures. Ode S. OGEDE: Sense and Sensibility in African Children's Play Songs: The Igede Example. Holger EHLING: Please Don't Kill Me. Children in the Librarian Civil War. Salaka SANOU: Mes Flêches Blanches, ou Roger Nikiema et la poésie illustrée pour enfants. Mabel SEGUN: Illustrating for Children. Andrée-Jeanne TÖTEMEYER: Desert Survival and Wilderness Adventures. Juvenile Literature for a Young Namibian Nation? Zakes MDA: Theatre for Children in South Africa. Abiola ODEJIDE: The Nigerian Children's Literary Scene - A View from Inside. Marieh LINTON UMEH: Children's Literature in Nigeria: Revolutionary Omissions. EZENWA-OHAETO: The Child Protagonists and Human Development in the Teenage Fiction of Nwachukwu-Agbada and Eddie Iroh. Jürgen MARTINI: Autobiography for Children: Mabel Segun's My Father's Daughter and My Mother's Daughter. Flora NWAPA: Writing and Publishing for Children in Africa - A Personal Account. CREATIVE WRITING. Hilde ASHUULU, Julia ARAN, Ulla MUKWIILONGO, Abraham ASHEELO: Three Friends. A Story. Hansel NDUMBE-EYOH: The Magic Fruit. A Play. Zakes MDA: Dankie Auntie: A Play. Mabel SEGUN: Three Poems. Stephen CHIFUNYISE: People Never Get Old. A Story. Sam MBURE: Six Poems. Mobolaji ADENUBI: I am Tired of Being a Fly! A Story. INTERVIEWS. The Gift of Memory: Interview with Mabel Segun (Wale Okediran). Staying in Touch with Tradition: Interview with Stephen Chifunyise (Raoul Granqvist). There is a Child in Every Adult and an Adult in Every Child: Interview with Kofi Anyidoho (Raoul Granqvist). Désacralisation des Traditions: Théâtre des Marionnetes au Togo. Entretien avec Kanlafeï Danaye (Wolfgang Zimmer). MARKETPLACE. Bob NEWTON: Writing and Publishing in National Languages Today: The Case of Bamanakan. What is Happening in Africa Today? Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, and African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 28-30 September 1995. (Geoffrey V. Davis). BOOK REVIEWS. ANOUNCEMENTS. ADDRESSES.