JONALA
The Ninth & Tenth

The journal has moved to New York and is now published by The Third Press, Joseph Okpaku Publishing Co., at 444 Central Park West; Dennis Brutus and Cosmo Pieterse guest-edit, and Abiola Irele joins Paulette Trout as assistant editor for literature in French. Okpaku’s editorial, Reflections on African Studies — printed simultaneously in the ASA Newsletter — contrasts the African Heritage Studies Association conference at Baton Rouge with the African Studies Association, which he accuses of pseudo-academic politics and of excluding Africans and Black Americans from its panels; he recalls the ASA panel on the treatment of women in Nigerian fiction that included no African woman. The issue opens with J. M. Coetzee on Alex La Guma and the responsibilities of the South African writer, written while he was an assistant professor at Buffalo and years before his first novel. Also here: G. C. M. Mutiso, Eric Sellin on Algerian poetry, Paulette Trout on François Sengat-Kuo, poems by Okot p’Bitek and by Dennis Brutus for Albert Lutuli, fiction by Amin Kassam, and an interview with Yambo Ouologuem. The cover carving — a Congolese ebony figure of a man fishing, from Okpaku’s own collection — is the colophon of The Third Press and appears on all its books; the back cover advertises Angela Davis’s If They Come in the Morning, which the press published that September.