Includes bibliographical references.

On Afropolitanism / Simon Gikandi -- In the spirit of Afropoli tanism / J.K.S. Makokha -- Border crossings, precarity, syncretis m. Afropolitanism and erudition in Francophone African novels, 1994- 2000 / Sim Kilosho Kabale ; Precarity and picaresque in contempor ary Nigerian prse : an exemplary reading of Ben Okri's The famished road / Jens Frederic Elze-Volland ; Border crossing through myth- making : the unbarred muse in selected Nigerian literature / Sola Ogunbayo ; Syncretic worldviews in Wole Soyinka's The interpreters / Fella Benabed -- Dissidence, absence, transgression. Dogs an d dissidents at the border : narrative outbreak in Patrice Nganang's Temps de Chien / Catherine Kroll ; Addressing the absent other i n J.M. Coetzee's Age of iron / Jennifer Wawrzinek ; Nearly ending the world the African way : Pepetela's suspension of capital's fron tiers and flows in O quase fim do mundo / Phillip Rothwell ; A po st-modern on the postmodern : conflict and corporeality in Nuruddin Farah's Links / John E. Masterson ; Sociology/matriology in Maghr eb writing : space and feminine transgression in Fanon's Sociologie d'une revolution and Chraibi's La civilisation, ma mere! / Russell W est-Pavlov -- Unhomeliness, diasporic narration, heterotopia. Neg otiating dislocated identities in the space of post-colonial chaos : Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting / Emilia Ilieva and Lennox Odiemo-M unara ; No place to call home : citizenship and belonging in M.G. Vassanji's The in-between world of Vikram Lall / Nadini Iyer ; W eaving exilic narratives : homodiegetic narration and postcolonial t ranslocation in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Admiring Silence / Remmy Shiundu Barasa and J.K.S. Makokha ; Between diasporic identity and agency : versions of the pastoral in Gurnah's Pilgrams way and Mahjoub's Nav igation of a rainmaker / Maria Jesus Cabarcos Traseira ; Locating cultural ambivalence and afropolitanism : Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam as heterotopia in the fiction of Dawood and Vassanji / Godwin Siund u -- Language, borders, spaces. Across the language border : t he case of bilingual writers in Tanzania / Mikhail Gromov ; Sheng literature in Kenya : socio-linguistic borders and spaces in popula r poetry / Alina N. Rinkanya ; "Na hawa watu lazima wakuwe seriou s!" : FM radio spaces and folkloric performance of cosmopolitan iden tities in Kenya / Mbugua wa Mungai ; Empire speaks back : auth enticity, folk voices and re-presentation of across in Gikutu radio nar ratives / Michael Wainaina.