Journal articles
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East African economic union: break-up or breakthrough? |
From 1960 through 1963 hopes for speedy attainment of East African Federal Union waxed high. Then they began to dim and by 1965 to die away. |
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Negritude: the third phase |
A fresh look at Negritude - its French romantic roots, its limits, the French African poets from Senghor the sage to U Tam'si beyond its confines. |
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The case of the twins |
Collingwood August's translation of the Xhosa classic "Ityala lamaWele". |
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The Dakar festival |
Editorial on The Dakar Festival, Frontier and South African Unity Moves. |
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The triple challenge before Ghana |
Editorial on The Dakar Festival, Frontier and South African Unity Moves. |
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Lesotho dilemma |
Lesotho is part of Africa and its inheritors will be the men who have seen this simple truth and acted upon it. |
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Night of freedom |
Fictional story. |
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Poems |
Poems: "Poem against the rain" and "Death". |
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A few days and nights |
This pre-publication extract (Chapter 1) from an important Camerounian first novel sets a scene which reverses the roles of the French and African lovers in Cyprian Ekwensi's "Night of freedom". |
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Document and imagination |
The novel, Africa's only totally imported literary form, has moved from flat bald statement to imaginative experiment. |
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From Benin to Zululand |
Sculptures selected for exhibition during the first festival of the Negro Arts at Dakar. |
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Words, words, words |
Snippets on books and publishers. |
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The old man |
Fictional story. |
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To the Editor |
Letters to the Editor. |
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The oral tradition |
Discussion around the ramifications of what is generally referred to as the African oral tradition. |
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Above all is poetry |
In the vast field of African oral literature, the folktale is after all only one form of the prose material, and probably the lesser part of the whole, for poetry covered every aspect of a man's life. |
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Development strategy and implementation in Ghana and Nigeria |
A crucial cause of the military-police coups in Ghana and Nigeria was the rejection of the political, economic structure and policy of their political elites. |
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A promise |
A poem. |
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Thirty years on |
A student expresses a view of the generation of the sixties - 30 years after an earlier generation had found the Spanish War crucial. |
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Inside South Africa |
A monthly letter about events in South Africa. |