Editor: Jean-Pierre Durix

CONTENTS
Crossways

• Amy Staehr, "Exploring the Middle Ground: Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born," 5
• Philip Whyte, "Photography in Ben Okri's The Famished Road," 21
• Wole Ogundele, "Before the Beginning: Niyi Osundare's The Word is an Egg: Poems," 29
• Charles Bodunde, "Beyond Biography: Characters and Journeys in Soyinka's Isara," 39
• Rosemary Gray, "The Music Under the Stone: A Reading of Alex La Guma's The Stone Country," 47
• Sue Kossew, "'Living in Hope': An Interview with Nadine Gordimer," 55
• Siphokazi Koyana, "'Why Are You Carrying Books? Don't You Have Children?' Sindiwe Magona's Autobiographies," 63
• Siphokazi Koyana and Rosemary Gray, "An Electronic Interview with Sindiwe Magona," 77
• Jean Sévry, "Interviewing Jamal Majoub," 85
• Renée Schattemant, "An Interview with Caryl Phillips," 93
• Judith Misrahi-Barak, "A Conversation with Cyril Dabydeen," 107
• Igor Maver, "Europe Seen Through Australian Eyes," 115