London, 1961. Hardcover with dustcover, 207 pages. Good condition. Tightly bound and clean. The pages slightly (but evenly) discoloured due to 65 year age, but very neat.
Articles. Return to West Africa / Abioseh Nicol -- Requiem for Sophiatown / Can Themba -- Ibos as they are / Onyenaekeya Udeagu -- The widows of the reserves / Phyllis Ntantala -- Why I ran away / Bloke Modisane -- African freedom / Tom Mboya -- Accra conference diary / Ezekiel Mphahlele -- The Blacks / Peter Abrahams -- Renascent Africa / Frederick S. Arkhurst
Essays. Africa and the cinema / J. Koyinde Vaughan -- African work songs / Tennyson Makiwane -- Funeral of a whale / J. Benibengor Blay -- Akan poetry / J.H. Kwabena Nketia
Miscellaneous. With the lid off / Todd Matshikiza -- An African's adventures in America / Babs Fafunwa -- Counsel's opinion -- Girl about town / Marion Morel -- What Nkrumah said to the U.S. Senate / Kwame Nkrumah -- African lonely hearts -- The origin of Death / Hottentot folk tale -- The greater trickster / Efik folk tale -- The butcher's share / Efik folk tale -- Tribal proverbs
Poetry. African heaven / Francis Ernest Kobina Parkes -- Spirit of the wind / Gabriel Okara -- Forefathers / Birago Diop -- Return : two poems / Abioseh Nicol -- The serving girl / Aquah Laluah -- Play song / Peter Kumalo -- That heavenly moment / Dei Anang -- Life in our village / Matei Markwei -- Flute players / Jean Joseph Rabearivelo -- Vultures / Simon Pederek -- Two in London / Wole Soyinka -- To the American Negro troops / Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Song of the poor man / Anonymous -- Weapon / I.W.W. Citashe
Stories. New life at Kyerefaso / Efua Theodora Sutherland -- Death in the sun / Peter Kumalo -- Ajantala, the noxious guest / Amos Tutuola -- The bench / Richard Rive -- Mista Courifer / Adelaide Casely-Hayford -- As the night, the day / Abioseh Nicol -- Law of the grazing fields / Cyprian Ekwensi -- Anticipation / Mabel Dove-Danquah -- Episode in Malay camp / Peter Abrahams
