Introduction: Traditions of Literacy by Ren�e Larrier and Ousseina D. Alidou Part I: Visual and Verbal Artistry: Texts and Text[iles] as Epistemology Chapter 1: Embodying African Women's Epistemology: International Women's Day Pagnes in Cameroon; Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum and Anne Patricia Rice Chapter 2: Reading the T�ra-tera: Textiles, Transportation, and Nationalism in Niger's First Republic; Amanda Gilvin Chapter 3: Becoming Griot: Righting Within a Minor Literature; Oumar Diogoye Diouf Chapter 4: Research on Droughts and Famines in the Sahel: the Contribution of Oral Literature; Boureima Alpha Gado Part II: Body Language/Writing [on] the Body Chapter 5: Transgressive Embodied Writings of KAribbean Bodies in Pain; Gladys Francis Chapter 6: Alhaji Roaming the City: Gender, HIV-AIDS and the Performing Arts; Ousseina D. Alidou Chapter 7: Writing on the Visual: Lalla Essaydi's Photographic Tableaux; Donna Gustafson Chapter 8: Angles of Representation: Photography and the Vision of al Misriyya [the Egyptian] in Women's Press of the Early Twentieth Century; Fakhri Haghani Part III: Inscribing Popular Culture Chapter 9: Representing Adolescent Sexuality in the Sahel; Barbara Cooper Chapter 10: There's More Than One Way to Make a Ceebu-J�n: Narrating West African Recipes in Texts; Julie Huntington Chapter 11: Reclamation of the Arena: Traditional Wrestling in West Africa; Bojana Coulibaly Chapter 12: Ritual Celebrations: Context of the Development of New African Hybrid Cultures; Jean-Baptiste Sourou Chapter 13: Simmering Exile; Edwidge Sylvestre-Ceide Part IV: Language, Literacy, and Education Chapter 14: Writing, Learning and Teaching Material for Early Childhood Cultures: from Africa to a Global Context; Rokhaya Fall Diawara Chapter 15: Orthographic Diversity in a World of Standards: Graphic Representations of Vernacular Arabics in Morocco; Becky Schulthies Chapter 16: The Polyphonous Classroom: Discourse on Language-in-Education on Reunion Island; Meghan Tinsley Chapter 17: Thundering Poetics/Murmuring Poetics: Doing Things With Words as a Marker of Identity; Laurence Jay-Rayon Part V: Intersections of Text and Image Chapter 18: Wilson Bigaud's "Les Noces de Cana" [