Year: 1964
Issue: 13
Cover image: Ali Darwish
CONTENTS
LUO PLAINS … Wole Soyinka
TO PRE-COLONIAL AFRICA … Mbella Sonne Dipoko
KITES … Adrian Rowe-Evans
A CONVERSATION … John Butler
HOME-COMING SON … Tsegaye Gabre Medhin
FICTION
WARD NINE … Grace Ogot
ARTICLES
A DEFENCE OF NEGRITUDE … Abiola Irele
SIR IVOR JENNINGS’ DEMOCRACY … Patrick McAuslan
Fr. TEMPELS’ BANTU PHILOSOPHY … Okot p’Bitek
FILM IN EAST AFRICA … Jane Banfield
FOLK TALES FROM ANKOLE … Musa Mushanga
THE PARTY AND THE NO-PARTY STATE: TANGANYIKA AND THE SOVIET UNION … Henry Bienen
THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST AND AFRICAN POLITICS … Gordon D. Morgan
THE OFFENDED CHI IN ACHEBE’S NOVELS … Austin J. Shelton
OF THE STRONG BREED … David Cook
NOTES IN TRANSITION … Brita Wigfors, etc.
AFRICAN SOCIALISM … Pierre Kanoute
REVIEWS
THE SOMALI STRUGGLE … Alan Rake
INDIANS IN BRITAIN … Dharam Ghai
ART
LINOCUT … Francis Msangi
GRAVE CARVING FROM MADAGASCAR … Sarajane Archdeacon (photo)
COVER … Ali Darwish
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ON HEROES AND UHURU-WORSHIP … Lennard Okola, Gary Gappert
AFRICAN SOCIALISM … Khadambi Asalache
DEAD END OF AFRICAN LITERATURE … Jan Knappert
CONTRIBUTORS
ISSUE SUMMARY