Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies

And the news never came

Place, interest and political agency: some questions for Michael Neocosmos

Well-seasoned talks: the newspaper column and the satirical mode in South African letters

The politics of the page: cutting and pasting in South African and African-American newspapers

Imagining and appreciating “the long eye of history”: race, form and representation in Drum magazine’s serialisation of wild conquest

Minerva’s orthography: early colonial projects for print literacy in African languages

Yo-yo culture: thinking South Africa after Marikana

Music memoirs from Africa: tracking music in Binyavanga Wainaina’s memoir: One Day I Will Write About This Place

“The difference of colour”: reading and writing abolitionism

The pose of the author: colonial Africa and the operations of genre

Post-genocide Rwanda and discursive construction of legitimacy: contesting seemingly dichtomous political narratives

Utopia and dystopia in the post-apartheid city: the praxis of the future in Cape Town

Introduction: Narrative Articulations in Africa

Archives of empire

Khaya Witbooi. Rabbit

Afterword: the shock of the new old

“Stories we tell”: queer narratives in Kenya

“Troubling” stories: thoughts on the making of meaning of shame/ful memory narratives in (post)apartheid South Africa

Ruined time and post-revolutionary allegory in Nthikeng Mohlele’s Small Things

Umteteli wa Bantu and the constitution of social publics in the 1920s and 1930s

William Dorsey and the construction of an African American history archive

“I have a story about Nairobi”: narrator unreliability, ethnicity and the imagination of the Kenyan nation in “Khandpaka” by Awillo Mike and Ja-Mnazi Afrika

Corruption

Non-racialism, relationality and no-relation: recovering Biko’s Black Consciousness forgotten

Narrative identity: the construction of dignified masculinities in Black male sex workers’ narratives