Nuruddin Farah's variations on the theme of an African dictatorship / Gichingiri Ndigirigi -- Colonialism, the modern African dictator and the postcolonial state / Nada Halloway -- The unfaithful chronicler: on writing about the dictator in Henri Lopès's Le pleurer-rire (The laughing cry) / Magali Armillas-Tiseyra -- Toxic fathers: Henri Lopès's The laughing cry as emblematic African dictator novel / Gitahi Gititi -- The last king of Africa: the representation of Idi Amin in Ugandan dictatorship novels / Oliver Lovesey -- Jacob's ladder and Anthills of the Savannah: narrativizing the internal-external dynamic of African political power / Joseph McLaren -- The dictator and his objects: the status of the fetish in the African dictator novel / Magali Armillas-Tiseyra -- Fimbo ya Nyayo: when the Kenyan dictator called the tunes! / Maina Mutonya -- Diagnosing the dictator's body politic in Wizard of the Crow / Robert L. Colson -- Performing resistance in Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow / Gichingiri Ndigirigi -- Fraternal oppression and the "aesthetics of vulgarity" in Alain Mabanckou's Broken glass / Awa Sarr -- "A nation of one's own": fictional indictment of cannibalistic African states / Nganga Muchiri
