The Editor: Michelle Beauclair received her B.S.L.A. in French from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches French and Francophone culture courses at Edmonds Community College in Lynnwood, W.A., and advanced Francophone literature courses at Seattle Pacific University. She has also taught a Francophone course in Paris for the Washington Consortium of Community Colleges. She is the author of Albert Camus, Marguerite Duras, and the Legacy of Mourning (Peter Lang, 1998).

• Contents: Michelle Beauclair: Introduction – Alain Péricard: Media and Cultures in Francophone West Africa: Journalists, Chiefs, Elders and Marginals – Paschal B. Kyiiripuo Kyoore: Tradition, Modernity, and the Clash of Cultures in African Society: The Example of Burkina Faso – Susan Stringer: The Special Status of Senegal and the Emergence of Women Writers – Sylvie Charron/Sue Huseman: North Africans in France: A Crisis in Cultural Identity - Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Les Raisins de la galère – Debra L. Anderson: Martinique: Culture and Identity – Timothy Scheie: Staging Decolonization: The Theater of Aimé Césaire – Marcia G. Parker/Beverley G. David: South America’s «Guyane»: Model of Francophone Diversity – Marie-Paule Méda: «Je me souviens»: Quebec’s Literary and Linguistic Journey – Janet L. Shideler: The Francophone Presence in the Northeastern United States.