Introduction: a voice from Bandiagara / Christopher Wise -- Remarks on Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence / Wole Soyinka -- From one mystification to another: "Négritude" and "Négraille" in Le Devoir de violence / J. Mbelolo ya Mpiku -- Images of working people in two African novels: Ouologuem and Iyayi / Tunde Fatunde -- Representation of homosexuality in Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence / Chris Dunton -- Yambo Ouologuem and the meaning of postcoloniality / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Unknown voice of Yambo Ouologuem / Eric Sellin -- Writing as exploratory surgery: Yambo Ouologuem's Bound to violence / Christiane Chaulet-Achour -- Trait d'union: injunction and dismemberment in Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence / Christopher L. Miller -- Yambo Ouologuem, satirist and pamphleteer: irony and revolt in Lettre à la France nègre / Caroline A. Mohsen -- Pornography, or the politics of misbehaving? A feminist reading of the voices of Yambo Ouologuem / Ann Elizabeth Willey -- Rewriting the Songhay past in Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence / Thomas A. Hale -- Qur'anic hermeneutics, Sufism, and Le Devoir de violence: Yambo Ouologuem as Marabout novelist / Christopher Wise -- In search of Yambo Ouologuem / Christopher Wise -- Yambo Ouologuem among the Tidjaniya / Christopher Wise -- Interview with al-Hajj Sékou Tall / Christopher Wise