JONALA
The Fifth & Sixth

A combined number for both halves of 1968, and the issue on which the journal’s ambitions turn commercial. Its What’s on Our Mind page announces The Third Press, “the first international African publishing company with a broad general interest,” with six titles in preparation — among them Nigeria: Dilemma of Nationhood, an analysis of the Biafra crisis by African scholars edited by Okpaku, and his own BBC prize-winning play The Virtues of Adultery with an introduction by Martin Esslin. The same page announces the move to quarterly publication from No. 7. The contents run to Nancy Schmidt on Nigerian fiction and the oral tradition, Donald J. Weinstock on Achebe’s Christ-figure, ten poems by David Diop translated by Paulette Trout and Ellen Conroy Kennedy with their profile of him as negritude’s angry young man, stories by I. Choonara and Elinor Schiffrin, and Leonard Kibera’s BBC prize-winning play The Potent Ash. The covers are paintings by the Ugandan artist Alirwana Mugalula Mukiibi — In The Mood (Baganda Harpists) on the front and Depressed (1967) on the back — with the design by Okpaku himself.