Writing through the Visual and Virtual

Introduction: Traditions of Literacy by Renée Larrier and Ousseina D. Alidou

Pagnes in Cameroon; Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum and Anne Patricia Rice
Téra-tera: Textiles, Transportation, and Nationalism in Niger’s First Republic; Amanda Gilvin
Chapter 4: Research on Droughts and Famines in the Sahel: the Contribution of Oral Literature; Boureima Alpha Gado
Chapter 6: Alhaji Roaming the City: Gender, HIV-AIDS and the Performing Arts; Ousseina D. Alidou
Chapter 8: Angles of Representation: Photography and the Vision of al Misriyya [the Egyptian] in Women’s Press of the Early Twentieth Century; Fakhri Haghani
Chapter 10: There's More Than One Way to Make a Ceebu-Jën: Narrating West African Recipes in Texts; Julie Huntington
Chapter 12: Ritual Celebrations: Context of the Development of New African Hybrid Cultures; Jean-Baptiste Sourou

Learning and Teaching Material for Early Childhood Cultures: from Africa to a Global Context; Rokhaya Fall Diawara
Chapter 16: The Polyphonous Classroom: Discourse on Language-in-Education on Reunion Island; Meghan Tinsley

The Wedding at Cana] or the Meeting of Colonial Heritage and Ancestral Traditions in Haitian Naive Art; Jean Hérald Legagneur
Tourist Art: A Tracery of the Visual/Virtual;Gabrielle Civil. Images by Vladimir Cybil Charlier
Chapter 21: West African Culture in Animation: the Example of “Kirikou”; Maha Gad El Hak
Amour, colère et folie, Simone Schwarz-Bart’s Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle, Rosario Ferré’s “La Bella Durmiente,” and Nelly Rosario’s El canto del agua; Phuong Hoang
La Mulâtresse During the Two World Wars: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Suzanne Lacascade’s Claire-Solange, âme-africaine and Mayotte Capécia’s Je suis Martiniquaise; Nathan H. Dize
Chapter 25: The Politics of Writing As a Space to Shape Identity(ies); Khady Diène