Schipper, Mineke, 59

Sembène, Ousmane, 109–110, 114, 141

Sepamla, Sipho, 198

servitude. See slavery

Sethi, Anita, 270, 296

Shamsie, Kamila, 307

Shelton, Austin, 231

Simatei, Tirop, 55

Skrzeszewski, Stan, 308–309

Slaughter, Joseph, 15–17, 24

slave trade, 84, 93, 105–108, 126–127, 134, 140–141, 169

slavery, 85, 94–95, 104–110, 127–131, 135, 141, 169, 172, 174

Slemon, Stephen, 225, 231

Smith, Andrew, 57

Smith, David, 186

Song for Night, 13–16, 24–28, 41–43

“Sophiatown Renaissance,”, 191–192

Soyinka, Wole, 8, 77, 85, 165, 199, 221, 227–238, 244, 252–257, 260, 263

Sozaboy, 17, 25, 32–34, 44

Spivak, Gayatri, 31

state of exception, 150, 155–157, 168

Stephens, Sharon, 23

suicide, 76, 107, 180–181, 196–207, 210, 213, 299

Sumner, William Graham, 270

symbolism, 37, 221–222, 256

Tamale, S., 125–126

Tansi, Sony Labou, 110

Themba, Can, 191–192

Things Fall Apart, 4, 54, 78, 157, 161–163, 273–274, 277

Thomas, Dominic, 110, 114–116, 121–125, 128–130, 135–136

Tiffin, Helen, 55

Tobias, Steven, 158

transcolonialism, 116, 123–125, 130, 137

transculturation, 150, 277, 290, 308

transnationalism, 15, 26–27, 80, 120–121, 124, 130, 142, 148–149, 151, 157, 277

Tsotsi, 198

Tunca, Daria, 59

Tutuola, Amos, 17, 29–36, 46, 83–85, 149–150, 157–161, 165

Two Thousand Seasons, 85

Un Nègre à Paris, 123

Understanding African Poetry, 252

Une vie de boy, 5

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), 21, 127

Vail, Leroy, 250

Van Niekerk, Marlene, 192

Voices from all Over, 263

Waberi, Abdourahman A., 114

Waiting for an Angel, 6, 147–151, 166–173

Walk in the Night, 197

Watson, Charles, 245, 261

Way of Death, 84

Weep Not, Child, 5, 92, 199–200

Welcome to Our Hillbrow, 6, 177–213

Wellington, Darryl Lorenzo, 298

Wenzel, Jennifer, 274

Wessells, Michael, 18