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The coverage displayed here is predominantly on sub-Saharan literary production, and with a â€“ perhaps systemic â€“ focus on important aspects of political history and socio-political structures (including marxian analyses of the â€˜public sphereâ€™) and such crucial arenas as religious discipline, the tension between tradition and modernity, ecological awareness, family, and gender.Most of the discussions are traditionally content-oriented, but there are at least two essays (on Soyinkaâ€™s AkÃ© and on Amma Darkoâ€™s The Housemaid) that attempt to come to grips narratologically with the medium of prose fiction itself. A quartet of essays with a more general purview â€“ including a refreshing demontage of exclusive obeisance to (Western) Ã©criture â€“ is followed by a section on poets, some canonical, others emergent: Ogaga Ifowodo, Jack Mapanje, Olu Oguibe, Tanure Ojaide, Okot pâ€™Bitek, Wole Soyinka, LadÃ© Wosornu. Essays on fiction cover general topics (womenâ€™s fiction; political writing in Nigeria; the nightmare of Biafra), and landmark texts both anglophone (Chinua Achebe, Amma Darko, Festus Iyayi, NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiongâ€™o, Wole Soyinka), francophone (Mariama BÃ¢, Mongo Beti, and Ousmane SembÃ¨ne), and â€“ a novum for Matatu â€“ hispanophone (Donato Ndongo). The theatre section has essays on Ama Ata Aidoo, Zakes Mda, Anne Tanyiâ€“Tang, Soyinka, and Ahmed Yerima, as well as NgÅ©gÄ© and Mugo.We are especially pleased to be able to offer accomplished original poetry, short stories, and a complete drama text. Four comprehensive essay-reviews (on literary criticism, cinema, graphic art, and traditional African society) round out this issue.