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FREEDOMWAYS      THIRD QUARTER 1972

Geismar, Peter. FANON. New York: Dial Press. 214 pages. $6.95. (A biography of Frantz Fanon, spokesman for the Third World and author of several books. David Caute's Frantz Fanon [Viking] is another.)

Gérard, Albert S. FOUR AFRICAN LITERATURES: XHOSA, SOTHO, ZULU, AMHARIC. Berkeley: University of California Press. $15.00. (A historical survey of the birth and growth of creative African writing from the early 19th century to the present; modern literature in four languages.)

Gibson, Richard. AFRICAN LIBERATION MOVEMENTS: CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLES AGAINST WHITE MINORITY RULE. New York: Oxford University Press. $9.75. (A comprehensive survey of recent struggles to free Black Africa from the remnants of white minority rule with a historical look at the movements involved. Published for the Institute of Race Relations, London.)

Handyside, Richard (editor and translator). REVOLUTION IN GUINEA: SELECTED TEXTS BY AMILCAR CABRAL. New York: Monthly Review Press. $4.95.

Hatch, John. TANZANIA: A PROFILE. New York: Praeger Publishers. $8.50. (A book in the Praeger Profiles series.)

Head, Bessie. MARU. New York: McCall Books. 127 pages. $4.50. (A new novel by the young Black African woman author of the novel When Rain Clouds Gather, about a small Botswana village.)

Ikime. Obaro and S. O. Osoba (editors). TARIKH, Vol. 3, No. 4: INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN AFRICA (Part 1). New York: Humanities Press. v, 76 pages. $1.25 (paper). (Published twice a year for the Historical Society of Nigeria.)

Irvine, Keith. THE RISE OF THE COLORED RACES. New York: W. W. Norton. x, 646 pages. $10.00.

Jackson, John G. INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS. Introduction and additional bibliographical notes by John Henrik Clarke. New York: University Books. 384 pages. $10.00. (This is a reprint of a now very rare book written by Dr. Willis N. Huggins and John G. Jackson and published in 1937. The text and bibliography have been brought up to date. John H. Clarke has written a long, important introduction in which he defends the thesis of the book and flays the myths about African history. Clarke also writes in the back of the book on the new bibliographical approach to African history and has a selected list of books reflecting this new approach to African history.)

Jahn, Jaheinz and Claus Peter Dressler. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CREATIVE AFRICAN WRITING. New York: Kraus Reprint. $25.00 (This is a revised, augmented edition of Jahn's Bibliography of Neo-African Literature from Africa, America and the Caribbean published in 1965. The new edition incorporates the new books of African, Afro-American and Caribbean creative writing published since the 1965 book. Jahn is the author of Muntu: The New African Culture and other works and is responsible for the Kraus reprint program The Black Experience - 400 years of black literature from African and the Americas.)

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RECENT BOOKS - AFRICA     KAISER

Jahn, Jaheinz. NEO-AFRICAN LITERATURE: A HISTORY OF BLACK WRITING. New York: Grove Press. 301 pages. $1.95 (paper).

Johnson, Christine C. ABC's OF AFRICAN HISTORY. New York: Vantage Press. 112 pages. $3.50.

Kahn, Jr., E. J. THE FIRST DECADE: A REPORT ON INDEPENDENT BLACK AFRICA. New York: W. W. Norton. 192 pages. $7.95.

Keesing's Research Report 6. AFRICA INDEPENDENT: A STUDY OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ix, 317 pages. $10.00 (cloth); $3.95 (paper).

Klein, Martin and G. Wesley Johnson (editors). PERSPECTIVES ON THE AFRICAN PAST. Boston: Little, Brown: College Division. 704 pages. $6.95 (paper). A collection of interpretive essays on African history.)

Knappert, Jan. MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE CONGO. New York: Humanities Press. xiv, 218 pages. $2.25 (paper).

LaGuma, Alex (editor). APARTHEID: A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS ON SOUTH AFRICAN RACISM BY SOUTH AFRICANS. New York: International Publishers. 245 pages. $1.65 (paper).

Laurence, Margaret. LONG DRUMS AND CANNONS: NIGERIAN DRAMATISTS AND NOVELISTS. New York: Praeger Publishers. 209 pages. $5.95 (A study of the sources and themes of the works of contemporary Nigerian writers: Wole Soyinka, John Pepper Clark, Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola, Cyprian Ekwensi, T. M. Aluko, Elechi Amadi, Nkem Nwankwo, Flora Nwapa, Onuora Nzekwu and Gabriel Okara.)

Leiris, Michel and Jacqueline Delange. AFRICAN ART. Translated by Michael Ross. New York: Golden Press Publishers. $29.95. (A good analysis of the functions of African art in African societies and its impact upon western art.)

Liyong, Taban Lo. EATING CHIEFS: LWO CULTURE FROM LOLWE TO MALKAL. Selected, Interpreted and Transmitted by Taban Lo Liyong. New York: Humanities Press. xi, 113 pages. $1.50 (paper). (This is a volume in the African Writers Series that now has over 100 volumes. Liyong, a young Ugandan writer and college teacher, is the author of Fixions and Stories by a Ugandan Writer, 1969, and The Last Word with a book of poems to come. Other books in the African Writers Series recently published by Humanities Press are Bonnie Lubega's The Outcasts, John Munonye's Oil Man of Obange, Mbella Sonne Dipoko's A Few Nights and Days, Can Themba's The Will To Die, Kole Omotoso's The Edifice, Dennis Brutus's Letters to Martha & Other Poems from a South African Prison, Obotunde Ijimere's The Imprisonment of Obatala & Other Plays and B. M. Sahle Sellassie's The Afersata: An Ethiopian Novel.)

Makeba, Miriam. THE WORLD OF AFRICAN SONG. Music edited by J. Gwangwa and E.J. Miller, Jr. Introduction and notes by S. Mbabi-Katana. Illustrations by D. Alexander. Chicago: Quadrangle Books. 119 pages. $10.00

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