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Cover illustration: Ghariokwu Lemi Rise & Fall of Mbongeni Ngema 017 GLENDORA POET 022 Festival on the Road 030 f /hat is the meaning of Music * 035 lonuments & tBmorphosis Continentalist Producing Fela's Album Jacket Notes on _ contributor Bernth Lindfors*— Leading theoretician and critic. Was for many years editor of Research in African Literature and professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. •Tejumola Olaniyan Nigerian playwright and literary critic, teaches English at the University of Virginia. Jahman Anikulapo* An actor and arts journalist; is working as literary editor of The Guardian, Lagos. •Ghariokwu Lemi- Lagos-based graphic artist and designer, was Fela's main album cover designer and is now still active making music album and book covers. • Chika Okeke*— A curator and poet, taught Art History and painting until his recent resignation at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. 'Olusegun Adekoya - A poet, teaches literature and English at Obafemi Awolowo University, lle-lfe. • Akin Adesokan* Writes for the literary columns of The Post Express, Lagos. •Michael Veal Musician and popular music scholar, has a book in preparation nn Fftla Kiitr IJVRS in New Ynrk Fefi & the Black 'resident Film 074 The JAZZ Connections 084 SHORT STORY: Asafa il Tradition of Cartooning in Nigeria Interview with Ottenberg