Présence Africaine
No. 67

THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF AIMÉ CÉSAIRE’S UNE TEMPÊTE, his rewriting of Shakespeare’s The Tempest with Caliban as a black slave and Ariel as a mulatto — printed here in full, at page 3, before its appearance in book form. The issue also carries a DOSSIER: Table ronde sur les langues africaines, a round table on African languages with a foreword, the debates in full, Vincent Foutchantse on promoting an African literature, and J. H. KWABENA NKETIA on “The Language Problem and the African Personality”. Luc de Heusch writes on the raw and the cooked in the Bantu domain; and Khadambi Asalache contributes “The Making of a Poet: Wọlẹ Ṣóyínká”.