Preface / Alexie Tcheuyap -- Introduction / Alix Mazuet and Lifongo Vitende -- Tradition, Modernity, and the Third Term of Binary Oppositions in Ken Bugal's Riwan ou le chemin de sable / Alix Mazuet -- Power and the Aesthetic of the Novel in Francophone Africa: The Example of Ahmadou Kourouma / Etienne-Marie Lassi, translated by Jeff Fuller -- Tragedy, Power and Gender in Fanta Régina Nacro's La Nuit de la vérité / Catherine Webster -- Costume et pouvoir: la fonction commitatoire de vêtement dans la politique post-coloniale en Afrique / Benjamin Ngong -- Spaces of Power in Academic Cultures / Alix Mazuet -- Contributors -- Index