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Ghana@50: Honoring the Legacy and Literature of Independent Africa

Table of Contents

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Notes from the Editor: Sheila Smith McKoy (excerpt)

Craig Brookins

Parable of Sojourner: A Long View of "Ghana @ 50" (excerpt)

Poetry

Kofi Anyidoho

The CapitolGang, Waiting in Shadows, Just Fine, Among my Dreams, En Route San Salvador, The Place We Call Home

Makuchi

terrorism

Sheila Smith McKoy

Waverings

Shane Book

Stationed On A Moving Island, Entire Road in "D", A Few Used Doilies, Sugar's Secrets, African Evening, Getting Down, FreeTown, A Ways To Go

Interviews

Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes: An Interview with Walter P. Collins, III (excerpt)

M. Genevieve West

"Creating a Change in Continuity": A Conversation with Makuchi, Author of The Sacred Door and Other Stories Cameroon Folktales of the Beba (excerpt)

Fiction

Kim Coleman Foote

Forest Blood (excerpt)

Essays

Rose Sackefyio

Altered Spaces: Interrogating Tradition and Modernity in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes (excerpt)

Helen Yitah

Tiring the Naked: Benjamin Kwakye's Allegory of the Nation in the Clothes of Nakedness (excerpt)

Kelly Secovnie

Ama Ata Aidoo and Kofi Awoonor: Pan-Africanism Reconstructed (excerpt)

Kwawisi Tekpetey

Translation and Transliteration in Efua Sutherland's The Marriage of Anansewa (excerpt)

Oyeniyi Okunoye

The Trope of the Ancestor in Contemporary Black Poetry (excerpt)

Book Reviews

M. Genevieve West

Book Review- The Sacred Door and Other Stories Cameroon Folktales of the Beba

Sheila Smith McKoy

A Griot's Song: A Review of Ayi Kwe Armah's The Eloquence of the Scribes

Lloyd McCarthy

Review of Michael Amoah's Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Slavery is a Language