Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Re-visioning African Writing -- Issues in Oral Tradition -- Chapter 2 - The Folktale in Achebe's Fictions -- Chapter 3 - Oral Dynamics of Things Fall Apart -- Oral Dynamics of the Written Text -- Oral Dynamics of Things Fall Apart -- Chapter 4 - Orality in the Works of Ousmane Sembène -- Chapter 5 - Oral Multidimensional Collage in Recent Fiction -- Re-membering the Spiritual Order: Chin Ce: The Visitor -- The Infinite-Omniscient Self-review: Phaswane Mpe: Welcome to our Hillbrow -- Story-telling and Self-editing: Biyi Bandele-Thomas: The Man who came in from the Back of Beyond -- Chapter 6 - The Mythic Context of Le Jujubier du patriarche -- Chapter 7 - Oral Performance among the Graffi -- The Case of Performance as Tradition -- The Case of Performance as Creation -- Conclusion -- Chat -- Chapter 8 - Sembene: Last Chat with an African Griot -- Notes and Bibliography -- Back cover.