Continuing from EAR Volume 23 (2006), Volume 24 Issue 1 (2007) will focus on Africa in Literature. Compelling articles in 24:1 will include:

African Perspectives
'World Literature': the Value of an unstable category
 Michael Chapman (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

New perspectives in African literature: the case of Unity Dow and Alexander McCall Smith's Botswana
Fetson Kalua (Malawi and Unisa)

'Domesticating Infinity' in Ben Okri's Mental Fight and Astonishing the Gods
Rosemary Gray (Pretoria)

Tensions and conflict in Zimbabwean society: Nyamubaya reminisces
Rangarirai Musvoto (Zimbabwe and Pretoria)

Lesbian poetics and the poetry of Audre Lorde
Eric Sipyinyu Njeng (Buganda, East Africa) 

The Humanities, Vocationalism and the Public Good: Exploring 'the Hamlet factor'
Laurence Wright (Rhodes, South Africa)

The second issue for 2007 features articles on Language, Identity and English Education in South Africa; both issues for 2008 are theme-based: Forging the local and the global and Voice and Gaze in Metropolitan and Postcolonial Writing and Film.

Previous articles have included:

EAR Volume 23 (2006)
Representing Africa

Revisiting African Realism: 1960s and 1970s
Anthony Chennells (Harare, Zimbabwe and Pretoria, South Africa)

The First Page of Cry, the Beloved Country
Andrew Foley (Wits, South Africa) 

Ira Aldridge's Africanness
Bernth Lindfors (Texas, USA)

Conceptualizing Feminism(s) in Africa: The Challenges Facing African Women Writers and Critics
Naomi N. Nkealah (Cameroon and Wits)

The Tempest in South Africa: Multilingualism and our profit on't
Marinus van Niekerk (Pretoria)

Highlights of EAR Volume 22 (2005) included:

The Other Oppression: Juvenilia as Alternative Colonial Practice
Peter Alexander (New South Wales, Australia)

“I, me, me, mine!”: Autobiographical Fiction and the “I”
Antjie Krog (Western Cape, South Africa)

My name is HannaH
Zoë Wicomb (Strathclyde, Scotland)