1. Inscribing Meaning: Ways of Knowing / Mary Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, Allyson Purpura and Christine Mullen Kreamer
2. African Writing, Text and the Arts: Concepts and Definitions / Simon Battestini
3. Recording, Communicating and Making Visible: A History of Writing and Systems of Graphic Symbolism in Africa / Konrad Tuchscherer
4. Inscribing Identity: The Body / Mary Nooter Roberts
5. Cloth as Amulet / Sarah Brett-Smith
6. Conversation with Ike Ude / Elizabeth Harney
7. Sacred Scripts / Mary Nooter Roberts
8. Art and Writing in Ancient Egyptian Culture / Diana Craig Patch
9. Drinking the Word of God / Raymond A. Silverman
10. Visual Dimensions of Literature / Ali Omar Ermes
11. Inscribing Power/Writing Politics / Christine Mullen Kreamer
12. Nsibidi: Old and New Scripts / Amanda Carlson
13. Language Works / Willem Boshoff
14. Circumscribing Space / Christine Mullen Kreamer
15. Can't Cover the Moon with Your Hand: Uli Artists, Artistic Identity and Stuff / Sarah Adams
16. Flying Over Dikenga: The Circle of New Life / Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz
17. Ecstasy is on the Wire: African and Afro-Atlantic Writing Systems - A Conversation with Robert Farris Thompson / Robert Farris Thompson and C. Daniel Dawson
18. Word Play: Text and Image in Contemporary African Art / Elizabeth Harney
19. Re-Writes / Berry Bickle
20. Songs of Ancient Moons: Victor Ekpuk on His Art / Christine Mullen Kreamer and Allyson Purpura
21. Words: From Spoken to Seen / Wosene Worke Kosrof and Patricia L. DiRubbo.
