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Introduction: rethinking African cultural production / Frieda Ekotto and Kenneth W. Harrow -- The critical present: where is "African literature"? / Eileen Julien -- African writers challenge conventions of postcolonial literary history / Olabode Ibironke -- Provocations: African societies and theories of creativity / Moradewun Adejunmobi -- In praise of the alphabet / Patrice Nganang -- African cultural studies: of travels, accents, and epistemologies / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Le freak, c'est critical and chic: North African scholars and the conditions of cultural production in post-9/11 U.S. academia / Lamia Benyoussef -- Reading "beur" film production otherwise: the poetics of the human and the transcultural / Safoi Babana-Hampton -- Revealing the past, conceptualizing the future on-screen: the social, political, and economic challenges of contemporary filmmaking in Morocco / Valerie K. Orlando -- Thresholds of new African dramaturgies in France today / Maria Minich Brewer -- Island geography as creole biography: Shenaz Patel's Mauritian literary production / Magali Compan

For Humanity , Janet Roitman, and Ken Harrow interviewed Gregory Mann on some of the major themes of Mann's book From Empire to NGOs in the West African Sahel: the Road to Nongovernmentality . Key points of debate include NGO activity and foreign Human Rights engagement in West Africa, the meaning of "government" in the region, the nature of African sovereignty in the neoliberal era, and the capacity of the discipline of history to contribute to an understanding of contemporary Africa.