Présence Africaine
No. 36

The contents page reveals what the cover does not: OUSMANE SEMBÈNE’s story “The Negro Woman of…” — La Noire de…, which he would film in 1966 as the first feature by a sub-Saharan African director. Also L. H. Ofosu-Appiah on “The Idea of an African University”, Roland Tombekai Dempster on the writer and his gain, Robert Pageard on Soundiata Keita and the oral tradition, and a tribute to the Malagasy poet Rabearivelo. AIMÉ CÉSAIRE writes on “Crisis in the Overseas Departments or Crisis of the Departmental System?” and ROGER BASTIDE on “Variations on Negritude” — the movement examining its own central idea. Ronald Segal contributes “The Last Battle”; Dr Marc Sankale on national sovereignty and international health problems; and AMOS TUTUOLA tells a second story. Palaver covers the UN General Assembly, South Africa and the Commonwealth, “The Congo Without Lumumba”, and the Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland.