Map of Africa | p. 11 |
Inscribing Meaning: Ways of Knowing | p. 13 |
African Writing, Text and the Arts: Concepts and Definitions | p. 28 |
Recording, Communicating and Making Visible: A History of Writing and Systems of Graphic Symbolism in Africa | p. 37 |
Inscribing Identity: The Body | p. 55 |
Cloth as Amulet | p. 70 |
A Conversation with Ike Ude | p. 83 |
Sacred Scripts | p. 89 |
Art and Writing in Ancient Egyptian Culture | p. 107 |
Drinking the Word of God | p. 117 |
Visual Dimensions of Literature | p. 124 |
Inscribing Power/Writing Politics | p. 127 |
Nsibidi: Old and New Scripts | p. 146 |
Language Works | p. 154 |
Circumscribing Space | p. 159 |
Can't Cover the Moon with Your Hand: Uli Artists, Artistic Identity and Stuff | p. 176 |
Flying Over Dikenga: The Circle of New Life | p. 186 |
Ecstasy is on the Wire: African and Afro-Atlantic Writing Systems - A Conversation with Robert Farris Thompson | p. 195 |
Word Play: Text and Image in Contemporary African Art | p. 201 |
Re-Writes | p. 227 |
Songs of Ancient Moons: Victor Ekpuk on His Art | p. 230 |
Words: From Spoken to Seen | p. 237 |
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