African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism

Introduction: The Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary Africa /Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou --Part I: Foundational Visions --Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature /Adrien Mbar Pouille --Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda's She Plays with the Darkness /Thomas Spreelin MacDonald --"Through the Eyes of Dogs": Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel /Lifongo Vetinde --Part II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial Violence --"Remember the Children": Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction /Marie-Thérèse Toyi, André Brink and the Politics of Humanism /Hervé Tchumkam --Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in Cameroon /Jean-Blaise Samou --Part III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human Rights --Ojukwu's War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism /Uchenna David Uwakwe --Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present /Koni Benson --Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, the Book of Bones /Mohamed Kamara --An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: "The Conspiracy" by Henri Lopes /Janice Spleth.