Présence Africaine
No. 46

LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR opens with “Negritude and the Concept of Universal Civilisation”. The issue prints “THE STATE VERSUS NELSON MANDELA” — published as the Rivonia arrests were under way — with Elizabeth S. Landis on South African apartheid legislation. Act Three of AIMÉ CÉSAIRE’s La Tragédie du Roi Christophe continues the serialisation. Also MELVILLE J. HERSKOVITS on humanism in anthropological science, GERALD MOORE on FERDINAND OYONO and the colonial tragicomedy, PATHÉ DIAGNE on linguistics and culture in Africa, GEORGES BALANDIER on Africanism and the problems of anthropology, and a homage to Jean Amrouche.