Présence Africaine
No. 54

THE ISSUE OPENS WITH MALCOLM X ON “THE BLACK STRUGGLE IN THE UNITED STATES”, printed in the quarter after his assassination in February 1965. J. P. CLARK writes on “Themes of African Poetry of English Expression” and GERALD MOORE on “English Words, African Lives” — two of the sharpest pieces on anglophone African writing the journal ran. Also L. V. Thomas on Senghor and negritude, Alfa Ibrahima Sow on poetic construction in Fouta Djallon, Virgilio de Lemos’s “Prison Diary”, and a short story by the Sierra Leonean writer ABIOSEH NICOL.