Contents Introduction Bénédicte Ledent & Daria Tunca “Negotiating Africa Now” Madhu Krishnan “The Path Between Two Points” Julie Kleinman “An Afropean Travel Narrative” Johny Pitts “The Newly Black Americans” Louis Chude-Sokei “Happiness” Chika Unigwe “Some Connection with the Place” Jackie Kay interviewed by Petra Tournay-Theodotou

Contents Introduction – “The Power of a Singular Story: Narrating Africa and Its Diasporas” Daria Tunca & Bénédicte Ledent “What is Africa to me now?” Caryl Phillips “What is Africa to me now? The Sweet, the Bitter...” Karen King-Aribisala “Writing Africa in Belgium, Europe” Chika Unigwe interviewed by Elisabeth Bekers “‘The African Presence in Caribbean Literature’ Revisited: Recovering the Politics of Imagined Co-Belonging 1930-2005” Alison Donnell “Africa as Voices and Vibes: Musical Routes in Toni Morrison’s Margaret Garner and Desdemona” Serena Guarracino “Zombies Go to Toronto: Zombifying Shame in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring” Rebecca Romdhani “In Search of a ‘Grammar for Black’: Africa and Africans in Lawrence Hill’s Works” Pilar Cuder Domínguez “Re-Configuring the African Diaspora in Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears” Bénédicte Ledent “Dissociation, Spirit Possession and the Languages of Trauma in Some Recent African-British Novels” Dave Gunning “The Great Change and the Great Book: Nnedi Okorafor’s Postcolonial, Post-Apocalyptic Africa and the Promise of Black Speculative Fiction” Joshua Yu Burnett