Présence Africaine
No. 59

CHINUA ACHEBE’s “THE BLACK WRITER’S BURDEN” — one of his central statements on the writer’s obligation, published the year A Man of the People appeared. The issue opens with a poem by LANGSTON HUGHES, who died the following year, and carries a short story by the Gambian-Sierra Leonean poet LENRIE PETERS. Also Hollis R. Lynch’s study of EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN, Philippe N’dong N’doutoumé on the Mvett, and a review page dense with Nigerian titles — Nwakamma Okoro, Cyprian Okinkwo, FRANCIS SELORMEY’s The Narrow Path and JOHN MUNONYE’s The Only Son.