Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction - Indigenous Heritage in African Literature -- Chapter 1 - Storytelling and Human Development -- African Storytelling and Human Development -- The Wise King -- Development Values of Storytelling -- The Storyteller as a Developer -- Stage and Environment in African Storytelling -- Chapter 2 - Female Bonding in Black Literature -- Chapter 3 - Insigamigani (Heroic) Traditions -- Heroism in Rwandan Mythology -- Heroic Models in Rwandese Insigamigani texts -- The Symbolism and Imagery of Insigamigami Texts -- The Ethic of Insigamigani Texts -- Chapter 4 - Rumuji Women's Dance -- Women in Colonial / Post-Colonial Period -- Women's Voice in Pre-Colonial Communities -- The Dance: Origin / Nomenclature -- Rumuji Dance Performance -- Chapter 5 - Time and the Traditional Palimpsest -- The "Black Hole" in Africa History and Literature -- Palimpsestic Time as Anti Post-colonialism -- Images of Slave Trade and the African Sentiment -- Chapter 6 - Poetics of African Naming -- Naming and Collective Consciousness -- Parodying Transformations -- Chapter 7 - Proverbs in Ojaide's Contexts -- Chapter 8 - Igbo traditional Morality -- Tradition and Morality -- Crime and Punishment -- Igbo Moral Philosophy -- Traditional vs Western Penal Systems -- Chapter 9 - Naming in Esanland -- Chapter 10 - Rhythms: in Honour of Achebe -- Notes and Bibliography -- Back cover.