Volume 1 Number 1/April 2003 of African Identities is now available. It includes: Introduction: mainstreaming Africa by Pal Ahluwalia and Abebe Zegeye; Postcolonial theory on the brink: a critique of Achille Mbembe's On the Postcolony by Jeremy Weate; Towards a celebratory cultural imagination in an indifferent time by Ashraf Jamal; Plotting the South African colonial unconscious: Subaltern Studies and literary criticism by Bart Moore-Gilbert.