Examines the literary challenges faced by South and Southern Africa in the post-independence, post-apartheid years.

The end of the apartheid era in South Africa has meant the opening up of the country's culture, languages and literatures to the outside world. Within South Africa the literature of protest need no longer dominate creative outputand there has been a move towards a rediscovery of the ordinary . The realities of post-independence Zimbabwe as expressed in song and literature are also examined.

North America: Africa World Press