Volume 8, Number 1: Countercultures in contemporary Africa

Volume 8, Number 1, December 2012: Countercultures in contemporary Africa Editorial by Emma O’Shaughnessy and Reinier Vriend „My generation and yours‟: SAWIP Leadership Address by Johnny Steinberg Questioning tradition through experiments between African and western music by Lukas Ligeti Debunking the post-2000 masculinisation of political power in Zimbabwe : an approach to John Eppel‟s novel Absent: The English Teacher by Oliver Nyambi A culture of resistance: Vera‟s Nehanda and Butterfly Burning by Corwin Mhlalo Performing subversion‟: youth and active citizenship in Zimbabwean protest theatre by Muwona Ngonidzashe Sexuality and madness: versions and subversions in Calixthe Beyala‟s Femme nue Femme noire and Paulina Chiziane‟s Niketche: Uma história de poligamia by Margret Chipara and Gibson Ncube Mixing soccer and sexually „subversive‟ identities: issuing a form of representational counter-culture able to challenge hegemonic gender relations in contemporary South Africa? by Kate Joseph A memorial or an anti-memorial? A photographic essay of the memorial cemetery park in Swakopmund, Namibia by Chandra Frank The Coolitude of Coolietude: The (re)negotiation of the Indian Identity in Mauritius by Teena Dewoo Beyond dualist ontology: A note of caution on the use of the concept of “Agency” by Justin Dixon Book review: The Great Agony and Laughter of the Gods (Jamala Safari) by Ruth Brown Cultural Review: Pan African Space Station (PASS) by Emma Arogundade List of Contributors