ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE is Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University). She has been guest lecturer to institutions including Wellesley College, The University of the West Indies and The University of Bremen. She has published in journals including African Literature Today and Matatu and has chapters published in edited books including A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. TINASHE MUSHAKAVANHU was a Junior Research Fellow in African and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, UK.

• Editorial Article - Ernest N. Emenyonu'Real Africa'/'Which Africa?': the Critique of Mimetic Realism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Short Fiction - Eve EisenbergWriting Apartheid: Miriam Tlali's Soweto Stories - Mary Jane AndroneArticulations of Home & Muslim Identity in the Short Stories of Leila Aboulela - Lindsey ZanchettinUgandan Women in Contest with Reality: Mary K. Okurutu's A Woman's Voice & the Women's Future - Iniobong I. UkoSnapshots of the Botswana Nation: Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures & other Botswana Village Tales as a National Project - Louisa Uchum EgbunikeWidowhood: Institutionalized Dead Weight to Personal Identity & Dignity: A Reading of Ifeoma Okoye's The Trial & Other Stories - Regina OkaforFeminist Censure of Marriage in Islamic Societies: A Thematic Analysis of Alifa Rifaat's Short Stories - Juliana DanielsDiaspora Identities in Short Fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Sefi Atta - Rose A. SackeyfioExposition of Apartheid South African Violence & Injustice in Alex la Guma's Short Stories - Blessing Diala-OgambaLocating a Genre: Is Zimbabwe a Short Story Country? - Tinashe MushakavanhuMohammed Dib's Short Stories on the Memory of Algeria - Imene MoulatiAma Ata Aidoo's Short Stories: Empowering the African Girl Child - Hellen Roselyne L. ShigaliInterview with Ama Ata Aidoo - Maureen N. Eke and Vincent O. OdamttenReviews - James Gibbs

ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE is Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University). She has been guest lecturer to institutions including Wellesley College, The University of the West Indies and The University of Bremen. She has published in journals including African Literature Today and Matatu and has chapters published in edited books including A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. TINASHE MUSHAKAVANHU was a Junior Research Fellow in African and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, UK.

• Editorial Article - Ernest N. Emenyonu'Real Africa'/'Which Africa?': the Critique of Mimetic Realism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Short Fiction - Eve EisenbergWriting Apartheid: Miriam Tlali's Soweto Stories - Mary Jane AndroneArticulations of Home & Muslim Identity in the Short Stories of Leila Aboulela - Lindsey ZanchettinUgandan Women in Contest with Reality: Mary K. Okurutu's A Woman's Voice & the Women's Future - Iniobong I. UkoSnapshots of the Botswana Nation: Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures & other Botswana Village Tales as a National Project - Louisa Uchum EgbunikeWidowhood: Institutionalized Dead Weight to Personal Identity & Dignity: A Reading of Ifeoma Okoye's The Trial & Other Stories - Regina OkaforFeminist Censure of Marriage in Islamic Societies: A Thematic Analysis of Alifa Rifaat's Short Stories - Juliana DanielsDiaspora Identities in Short Fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Sefi Atta - Rose A. SackeyfioExposition of Apartheid South African Violence & Injustice in Alex la Guma's Short Stories - Blessing Diala-OgambaLocating a Genre: Is Zimbabwe a Short Story Country? - Tinashe MushakavanhuMohammed Dib's Short Stories on the Memory of Algeria - Imene MoulatiAma Ata Aidoo's Short Stories: Empowering the African Girl Child - Hellen Roselyne L. ShigaliInterview with Ama Ata Aidoo - Maureen N. Eke and Vincent O. OdamttenReviews - James Gibbs

ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE is Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University). She has been guest lecturer to institutions including Wellesley College, The University of the West Indies and The University of Bremen. She has published in journals including African Literature Today and Matatu and has chapters published in edited books including A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. TINASHE MUSHAKAVANHU was a Junior Research Fellow in African and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, UK.

• Editorial Article - Ernest N. Emenyonu'Real Africa'/'Which Africa?': the Critique of Mimetic Realism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Short Fiction - Eve EisenbergWriting Apartheid: Miriam Tlali's Soweto Stories - Mary Jane AndroneArticulations of Home & Muslim Identity in the Short Stories of Leila Aboulela - Lindsey ZanchettinUgandan Women in Contest with Reality: Mary K. Okurutu's A Woman's Voice & the Women's Future - Iniobong I. UkoSnapshots of the Botswana Nation: Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures & other Botswana Village Tales as a National Project - Louisa Uchum EgbunikeWidowhood: Institutionalized Dead Weight to Personal Identity & Dignity: A Reading of Ifeoma Okoye's The Trial & Other Stories - Regina OkaforFeminist Censure of Marriage in Islamic Societies: A Thematic Analysis of Alifa Rifaat's Short Stories - Juliana DanielsDiaspora Identities in Short Fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Sefi Atta - Rose A. SackeyfioExposition of Apartheid South African Violence & Injustice in Alex la Guma's Short Stories - Blessing Diala-OgambaLocating a Genre: Is Zimbabwe a Short Story Country? - Tinashe MushakavanhuMohammed Dib's Short Stories on the Memory of Algeria - Imene MoulatiAma Ata Aidoo's Short Stories: Empowering the African Girl Child - Hellen Roselyne L. ShigaliInterview with Ama Ata Aidoo - Maureen N. Eke and Vincent O. OdamttenReviews - James Gibbs