Melancholia Africana: scattered fragments of Africa -- Loss, mourning, and survival in Africa and the diaspora -- For a diasporic consciousness -- At the end of daybreak . . . the strength to see tomorrow -- Pain that sings the happiness to come -- How does one make sense of postcolonial nonsense? -- Scarlet dawns of a memory of forgetting -- From death to life in the country of a thousand hills -- From the gaze of the other to self-reflection -- "On va faire comment?": fact of language, civic renunciation, or theodicy of the everyday in the postcolony -- Coda -- Epilogue: Interview with Nathalie Etoke on Melancholia Africana: the indispensable overcoming of the black condition / conducted by LaRose T. Parris.
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