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  • Editor’s Comments

Over the past three years, African literature has lost with their passing two of its most significant voices, the Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera (1964–2005) and, two years earlier, the Côte d'Ivoirien novelist Ahmadou Kourouma (1927–2003). Research in African Literatures is pleased to dedicate the first two of the three clusters of the present issue to their memory. The third cluster of essays is devoted to an under-researched topic in African literature, namely, psychoanalysis and African literature. In addition to these clusters, RAL presents one general article in which Stefan Helgesson writes on the place of the influential journals Drum and Itinerário in the beginning of anti-apartheid/anticolonial literary cultures in Johannesburg and Maputo (then Lourenço Marques) after the Second World War. Our thanks go to the guest editors of the clusters, Liz Gunner and Neil ten Kortenaar for the Yvonne Vera cluster; Jean Ouédraogo for the essays on Ahmadou Kourouma; and finally, Uzo Esonwanne for the articles on psychoanalysis and African literature. [End Page v]


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Photo of Yvonne Vera by and with permission of Mai Palmberg.

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