New African Literature
and the Arts, 2

The second anthology, issued as an Apollo Edition — Crowell’s paperback imprint — in 1970, with copyright held by the Journal, Joseph Okpaku, Publisher, and dated 1970, 1968. Its material comes from the fourth and the combined fifth and sixth numbers: Okpaku’s editorial The Writer in Politics — Christopher Okigbo, Wole Soyinka and the Nigerian Crisis, Nancy Schmidt on Nigerian fiction and the oral tradition, Paulette J. Trout on French African literature, Donald J. Weinstock on Achebe’s Christ-figure, Gene Ulansky and Robert E. McDowell; poetry by Obiageli Peters, Jean Ikelle-Matiba and ten David Diop poems translated by Trout and Ellen Conroy Kennedy; stories by P. W. Songa, I. Choonara and Elinor Schiffrin; Cosmo Pieterse’s Ballad of the Cells and Leonard Kibera’s The Potent Ash; and Paul Páricsy’s supplement to Janheinz Jahn’s bibliography of neo-African literature.

The front cover is Alirwana Mugalula Mukiibi’s painting Depressed, from the collection of Mr and Mrs Jimmy Rusk of the U.S. Peace Corps — the same painting used on the back cover of the journal’s fifth and sixth numbers — with the cover design again by Judith Woracek Barry. The book is dedicated to Okpaku’s parents, to Stanford University “for a creative university experience,” and to the memory of his grandmother, Madame Usekpimi Ogunje.