INTRODUCTION
1 The African Experience, 3
I. CONTEXT
2 Beginnings, 21
3 African Initiatives, 36
4 The French Connection, 53
II. CONFRONTING REALITY
5 Liberation and Postcolonial Society, 67
6 Individual Struggle, 87
III. NEW IDENTITIES
7 Experimental Narratives, 109
8 Exemplary Tales, 122
IV. THE NEW MILLENNIUM
9 The Post-Independence Generation, 143
10 Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad), 158
11 Dani Kouyaté (Burkina Faso), 167
12 Raja Amari (Tunisia), 176
13 Faouzi Bensaidi (Morocco), 183
14 Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania), 191