Epic and its setting. "Dichotomy of power and authority in Mande Society and in the Epic of Sunjata" / John William Johnson
History, one: content and genesis of the core epic. "History of the Sunjata Epic: a review of the evidence" / Ivor Wilks
"Epic of Sunjata: structure, preservation and transmission" / Seydou Camara
"Historical transformation of genres: Sunjata as panegyric, folktale, epic and novel" / Ralph A. Austen
History, two: Sunjata in the oral traditions of the broader West African world. "Sinimogo, 'Man for Tomorrow': Sunjata on the fringes of the Mande world" / Stephen Belcher
"Searching for the historical ancestor: the paradigm of Sunjata in oral traditions of the Sahel (13th-19th centuries)" / Mamadou Diawara
"Geste of Borgu: a neglected type of Manding diaspora" / Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias
"Jeli and Sere: the dialects of the word in the Manden" / Karim Traoré
"Mooning armies and mothering heroes: female power in the Mande epic tradition" / David C. Conrad
Sunjata as written literature: the role of the literary mediator in the dissemination of the Sunjata Epic" / Stephen Bulman
Butchering heroism?: Sunjata and the negotiation of postcolonial Mande identity in Diabate's Le Boucher de Kouta" / James R. McGuire
Performance. "Production and reproduction of Sunjata" / Charles S. Bird
"Ethnography of the Epic of Sunjata in Kela" / Jan Jansen
"Out of print: the Epic cassette as intervention, reinvention, and commodity: / Robert C. Newton.