Présence Africaine
No. 39

JULIUS NYERERE on “African Unity”, published as Tanganyika reached independence. Lamine Diakhate on myth in Senegalese folk poetry; Raymond Verdier on feudal systems and African collectivism; LILYAN LAGNEAU — later Lilyan Kesteloot, the historian of the négritude movement — on “The Negritude of L. S. Senghor”; and Maurice Lubin on Haitian poetry. The issue also prints AIMÉ CÉSAIRE’s La Tragédie du Roi Christophe, continued in No. 44, and closes with an In Memoriam for FRANTZ FANON and ABDOULAYE SADJI and an appeal from the Committee for Angola. Palaver reports Tanganyika’s liberation, Somali irredentism in Kenya, the Katangese imbroglio and elections in Rwanda and Burundi.