CONTENTS:
Editorial article - childhood before and after birth, Eldred Jones
- carving a niche - visions of gendered childhood in Buchi Emecheta's "The Bride Price" and Tsitsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions", Pauline Uwakweh
- gender issues in Zaynab Alkali's novels, Adetayo Alabi
- childhood in African literature - a literary perspective, Maxwell Okolie
- beloved pawns - the childhood experience in the novels of Chinua Achebe and Mongo Beti, N.F. Inyama
- the symbolic concept of childhood in Chukwuemeka Ike's "The Potter's Wheel" and "The Bottled Leopard", Ezenwa-Ohaeto
- aspects of language in the African literary autobiography, Tony E. Afejuku
- evaluating the literary achievement of Gcina Mhliopne, Betty Govinden
- childhood a la Camara Laye and childhood a la Mongo Beti, E.P. Abanime
- absence of conflict in maturation in "The African Child", G.N. Marete
- trapped childhood - a study of Athol Fugard's "Cousins" and Isaac Mogotsi's "The Alexandra Tales", Lekan Oyegoke
- reviews.