Césaire, Aimé, 106, 114–115, 139, 141

Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 20, 29, 43, 45

Cheney-Coker, Syl, 80, 243

child soldiers, 5–6, 13–45, 130

Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, 251

Christianity, 40, 64, 108, 151, 168, 232, 234, 236, 261, 278–279, 296

Coetzee, J. M., 3, 198–199

colonialism, 3, 55, 57, 66, 75, 84, 92, 104–105, 108, 125, 127, 140–141, 149–150, 161, 165, 273

Comaroff, Jean and John L., 26

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), 21, 23, 26, 28

Cooper, Brenda, 163

Crankshaw, Owen, 191

Creative Writing Handbook for African Writers and Students, 242

creolization, 104–108, 113–115, 124, 141–142

Cry, the Beloved Country, 186–187, 189

Culler, Jonathan, 68–69

Dadié, Bernard, 109

Dance of the Forests, 257

Dangarembga, Tsitsi, 64

Dante the Man and the Poet, 220

Daphne's Lot, 41

David's Story, 199–203

Dawes, Kwame, 260–261

De Man, Paul, 220–221, 233

Death and Life of Great American Cities, 184

Death and the King's Horsemen, 199

debt. See indebtedness

decolonization, 54, 57

Derrida, Jacques, 34–35, 44–45

Detained, 260

Dhlomo, R. R. R., 6, 187

diaspora, 7–8, 54, 69, 104, 124, 126, 230, 271, 289, 303, 308

Dickinson, Emily, 302

Dikobe, Modikwe, 186, 189

Diome, Fatou, 6, 104–142

Dirda, Michael, 273

Disgrace, 198

Le Docker Noir, 123

Dongala, Emmanuel, 110

Dunton, Chris, 149, 274

Durkheim, Emile, 206

Efuru, 79

Eke, Maureen N., 33

El-Saadawi, Nawal, 69

Emecheta, Buchi, 61, 76, 78, 90

L'enfant noir, 5

English in Africa, 148

Everything Good Will Come, 4

exile, 3, 54, 57–58, 69–70, 77, 83, 107, 111, 117, 123, 127, 154, 156, 246

Eze, Chielozona, 87, 274–275, 277–278

Fall, Aminata Sow, 138

Famished Road, 80, 157, 163–165

Fanon, Frantz, 109, 188, 237

Farah, Nuruddin, 84–85

Farred, Grant, 202

Feireiss, Kristin, 185–186

feminism, 4, 61–62, 138, 282

Fletcher, Angus, 223

Fragments, 79

French Atlantic Triangle, 140

Freud, Sigmund, 34

Friedman, Milton, 152–153

Fugard, Athol, 198