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Vol. 3, No. 2, 2001.
Contents

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Mass Culture in Africa Between Mass Culture and Africa's Cultural Heritage: Possibilities of a Dialectic

Joseph Ndeffo Fongue, University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany

307

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Commercializing Culture: Artisanry Production and the Wodaabe in Niger

Kristin Loftsdottir, University of Iceland

316

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Gender as a Sociocultural Construct: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

Felicia Yieke, Josef Baumangasse, Vienna, Austria

333

Abstract

From Culture of Silence to Culture of Contest: Hegemony, Legitimacy and the Press in Ghana

Jennifer Hasty, Pacific Lutheran University, USA

348

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Socio-Cultural Change in Uganda: Emerging Perceptions on Bride Wealth

Peter Atekyereza, Makerere University, Uganda

360

Abstract

Capitalists in the Myst: The Mystery and The Joys in the Free Market

Robin Goodman, Florida State University, USA

385

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Chria van Wyk's The Year of the Tapeworm: Beyond the Realism of Struggle in South Africa

Sten Moslund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

412

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Literacy Acquisition and Cultural Awareness: Folksongs as Strategy

E.A.Babalola, University of Lagos, Nigeria

432

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Ngugi wa Thiong'O's Materialist Approach to Culture

Santiago Rodriguez Guerrero-Strachan, Departamento De Filologia Inglesa, Plaza del Campus, Valladolid, Spain

443

Abstract

The Dialectics of Indigenous Culture and Change in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Willie Hobbs III, Florida State University, USA

453

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Personalities and Voices

Conversation with Abiola Irele

462

 

Poems

Ismail B. Garba, Bayero University, Nigeria

474

 

Threnodies of a Wayfarer (A Poem)

Rotimi Fasan, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

476

 

Conversation with Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

494

 

Reviews

Structural Adjustment and the Struggle for Self-Determination and  Resource Control in Nigeria's Delta Region: A Review Essay

Iwebunor Okwechime, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

504

 

Thomas Turino: Nationalists, Cosmopolitans and Popular Music in Zimbabwe

Jonathn Zilberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

514

 

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo: House of Symbols

Anthonia Makwemoisa, University of Lagos, Nigeria

523

 

F.B.O. Akporobaro: Introduction to African Oral Literature

Anthonia Makwemoisa , University of Lagos, Nigeria

526

 

Adam Schwartzman: Ten South African Poets

Uduopegeme Yakubu, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria

528

 

Oladele Taiwo: In a Literary Vineyard:The Autobiography of Oladele Taiwo

Uduopegeme Yakubu, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria

532

 

P.F. Iya, N.S. Rembe, and J. Baloro, eds.: Transforming South African Universities

Rotimi Fasan, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

534

 

Denise Kadima and Claude Kabemba, eds.: Wither Regional Peace and Security? The DRC after the War

Rotimi Fasan, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

536

 

Eghosa Osaghae: Crippled Giant: Nigeria since Independence

Dan Nwomeh, University of Lagos, Nigeria

540

 

Forum

Olajide Timothy-Asobele: Forthcoming Titles

545

 

Potpourri

Promethean Fire: Trusteeship and Free Labour

Okia Opolot, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

549

Abstract

An Epistemological Analysis of the African Ontology of `Ancestral Reincarnation'

Oghenekaro M. Ogbinaka, University of Lagos, Nigeria

566

Abstract

Wisdom is Mightier than Might: Fagunwa's Narrative and the Yoruba Communal Philosophy

Kolawole Owolabi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

574

Abstract

Conversational Implicatures and Cultural Conventions in Dramatic Discourse: A Speech -Act Analysis of Ola Rotimi's Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again.

A.L. Dairo, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria

586

Abstract

Women and Palm Oil Production in Ijebuland: A Historical Perscpective

B.A. Odulami, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria

595

Abstract

English as a Language of Self--Defining in Yvonne Vera's Novels

Katrin Berndt, Bayreuth University, Germany

604

Abstract

The Development of Yoruba Textbooks for Secondary Education in Nigeria

Sola Adebajo, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria

612

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