The essays in this publication range from poetry and drama to church music, architecture, and popular magazines. Common to them is the effort to make the disciplines of arts and those of social sciences meet. African cultural expressions are treated here as anchored in the experiences common to the people of Africa, while the provincial exclusiveness of Afrocentrism is shunned.
Contents: Introduction: African Culture - an Estimate / Raoul Granqvist -- Christian Poetry and Music Drama: Black Cultural Expression in Zimbabwe / Olof Axelsson -- The "Electronic Church" in a Zimbabwean Communication Environment / Hilde Arntsen and Knut Lundby -- Zimbabwe: One State, One Faith, One Lord / Chenjerai Hove -- Rich and Poor Languages in Botswana / Lars-Gunnar Andersson and Tore Janson -- Living in the Neighbourhood of One's Dreams: The Role of Popular Writing in the Creation of the Ordinary / Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- Oppression and Liberation of Kenyan Women: On Orature and Modern Women's Literature / Ingrid Björkman -- In Search of Achebe's Dignity; or, The Cauliflower Episode / Adewale Maja-Pearce -- The Islamic Architecture and Art in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Problem of Identity / Karin Ådahl -- The Actor, the Art of Acting and Liminality / Kacke Gotrick -- Historical Roots and Rural African Culture as Part of Bessie Head's Frame of Reference / Gillian Stead Eilersen -- Thomas Mofolo and Nelson Mandela on King Shaka and Dingane / Carl F. Hallencreutz -- Nadine Gordimer and "The South African Dilemma":The Case of Liz van Den Sandt in The Late Bourgeois World / Rose Petterson