Abacha, Sani (General), 148, 165, 244, 247, 254, 284

Abani, Chris, 4, 6–7, 13–45, 75–97, 149, 260, 275, 277–278

Abrahams, Peter, 6, 186, 189

Achebe, Chinua, 3–4, 17, 36, 53–54, 76, 78, 149–150, 157, 161–163, 167, 172, 271, 273–274, 276, 290

Adebanwi, Wale, 279–280

Adesanmi, Pius, 141–142, 149, 243–244, 271, 274

Adichie, Chimamanda, 6–8, 53–71, 149, 269–289, 294, 308–309

Africa Fresh, 2

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 28

African Literature, 1

African Oral Tradition, 249

African Tragedy, 187

Afriqe sur Seine, 111, 123–124, 130

Afrocentrism, 112

Agamben, Giorgio, 156

Aidoo, Ama Ata, 61

Akpuda, Austine Amanze, 244, 258

allegory, 8, 179, 219–238

anti-colonialism, 110

Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 307

Armah, Ayi Kwei, 79, 85

Ashcroft, Bill, 55

Ashforth, Adam, 208–212

assimilation, 3, 24, 105

Atta, Sefi, 4–5, 7

L'aventure Ambigue, 123

Awoonor, Kofi, 251–252, 260–261

Bâ, Mariama, 138

Balibar, Etienne, 119–121

Bauman, Zygmunt, 153–155

Bearing Witness, 274

Beasts of No Nation, 5–6, 13–16, 22, 25–28, 36–45

Beavon, Keith, 182–184

Belly of the Atlantic, 6, 105–142

Beti, Mongo, 110

Beyala, Calixthe, 109

Bhabha, Homi, 34

Bhabha, Jacqueline, 13–14

bildungsroman, 14, 16, 19, 23–25, 28, 35–36, 40–41, 54, 66, 282

binary themes, 56, 65

Black France, 114

Black Paris, 110–111, 123–124

Blackburn, Douglas, 186

Bohannan, Laura, 271–275, 277, 281–282, 284–285, 296

bondage. See slavery

Bound to Violence, 92

Brace, Marianne, 288–289

Braidotti, Rosi, 151

Bremner, Lindsay, 180

Brown, Wendy, 153–155

Butler, Judith, 44

Cape Town Annotated Principles and Best Practices, 21

Caribbean Discourse, 115

Catholicism, 43, 63–67, 283, 288–289, 301–304, 307

Cazenave, Odile, 111–112, 123–124, 129–130, 136