Introduction: The Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary Africa / Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou
Part I: Foundational Visions
Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature / Adrien Mbar Pouille
Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda's She Plays with the Darkness / Thomas Spreelin MacDonald
"Through the Eyes of Dogs": Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel / Lifongo Vetinde
Part II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial Violence
"Remember the Children": Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction / Marie-Thérèse Toyi, André Brink and the Politics of Humanism / Hervé Tchumkam
Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in Cameroon / Jean-Blaise Samou
Part III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human Rights
Ojukwu's War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism / Uchenna David Uwakwe
Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present / Koni Benson
Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, the Book of Bones / Mohamed Kamara
An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: "The Conspiracy" by Henri Lopes / Janice Spleth.