usurp, 132

Utopies et Prospectives, 221

valuable, 16, 228

values, 2, 8, 30–32, 53, 65, 72, 83–88, 94, 96, 101–102, 129, 131, 146–147, 151, 159, 172–173, 175, 187–188, 190, 196–197, 212–215, 227, 229

variety, 18, 21

vehicle, 4, 105

vengeful, 121

verbally, 85, 89

Verlaine, 6

version, 118, 123

viatique, 18

vibrancy, 167

vicious, 189, 191, 236

vicissitudes, 13

viewers, 7, 10–11, 39, 71, 74, 76, 80, 84, 123, 134, 139–140, 142, 144–145, 149–150, 152, 155, 159, 173–178, 181, 185–187, 190–191, 194–195, 197, 200, 215, 218, 222, 225–229, 233, 235, 265

Vieyra, Paulin Soumanou, 16, 18

village, 37–39, 47–49, 73, 83–88, 109–110, 142–144, 149–150, 178, 191–192, 194–197, 199, 215–217, 223, 227, 233–236, 247, 252–254, 258, 261–262, 265–266

violence, 3, 41, 158, 196

virility, 189–190

visible, 43, 66, 84, 127, 137, 192, 197, 227, 231, 240

vision, 3, 10

voice, 5, 59, 69, 74, 79, 82–83, 104, 111–113, 116, 118, 120, 163, 165–166, 173, 176–177, 183, 191, 224, 238, 257

volume, 2, 11–18, 22–25, 234, 240, 250

vulgarity, 121, 263

vulnerable, 140, 196, 213

vulture, 152

wa Thiong’o, Ngugi, 95

Wade, 156–158

Wane, Samba, 45, 117–118

wealth, 88, 102, 104, 184, 189, 228

weight, 95, 166, 190

west Africa, 15, 24, 130, 236–237

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Western, 3, 5–8, 12, 17, 20, 31–32, 34, 42, 44–47, 49–50, 53–55, 65, 68, 72, 82, 88–89, 94–96, 102–105, 108, 120, 164, 169, 181, 187–188, 197, 209, 213, 219, 223, 230, 233, 240

wheat, 210–211, 236

whores, 122

wife, 69, 75, 79, 102, 112, 122, 142, 173–177, 183–187, 189–194, 204, 213–214, 245–247, 250, 252, 255–256, 266

wigs, 219, 223

Willey, Ann Elizabeth, 17

Williams, Patrick, 15

Wolof, 54–55, 94, 100, 103–111, 116, 118–120, 122–123, 130, 134, 137, 148, 169, 187, 219, 231, 245, 261

Wolofization, 130

womanhood, 168, 197

women, 8, 13, 20–21, 23–24, 36–39, 47, 105, 120–122, 133, 149, 163–169, 171–173, 177–178, 186, 188, 192–194, 196–205, 215–217, 238, 253–254, 265–266

wood, 19, 57, 81, 117, 135, 143, 180–182, 212, 227, 239, 249

workers, 57, 112, 218