Viewing page 44 of 47

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

FREEDOMWAYS     THIRD QUARTER 1972

berg's The Art of African Cooking [Dell] and Ellen Gibson Wilson's A West African Cookbook are other similar recent books.)

Ogot, B. A. and J. A. Kiernan (editors). ZAMANI: A SURVEY OF EAST AFRICAN HISTORY. New York: Humanities Press. 407 pages. $9.00 (cloth); $3.75 (paper).

Okigbo, Christopher. LABYRINTHS WITH 'PATH OF THUNDER'. New York: Africana Publishing Corp. in association with Mbari Publications, Ibadan, Nigerian. 72 pages; illus. $4.50 (cloth); $1.75 (paper). (Poem by the young Ibo poet of Nigeria who was killed in the Biafran war of the late 1960's.)

Okpaku, Joseph (editor). NEW AFRICAN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS. Vols. 1 and 2. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell in association with the Third Press. $8.95 (cloth); $3.95 (paper) for each volume.

Okpaku, Joseph (editor). NIGERIA, DILEMMA OF NATIONHOOK: AN AFRICAN ANALYSIS OF THE BIAFRAN CONFLICT. Greenwood Publishing Co., Riverside Ave., Westport, Conn. 06880. 426 pages. $14.00.

Okpewho, Isidore. THE VICTIMS. New York: Doubleday. $1.95 (paper). (A good novel by a Nigerian writer. Other recent African creative works are Ayi Kwai Armah's Why Are We So Blest? [novel] and Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here [short stories].)

OXFORD LIBRARY OF AFRICAN LITERATURE. New York: Oxford University Press.
I. A SELECTION OF AFRICAN PROSE: Vol. 1-TRADITIONAL ORAL TEXTS; Vol. 2-WRITTEN PROSE (both compiled by W. H. Whiteley).
II. THE HEROIC RECITATIONS OF THE BAHIMA OF ANOKLE by H. F. Morris.
III. SOMALI POETRY: AN INTRODUCTION by B. W. Andrzejewski and I. M. Lewis.
IV. PRAISE-POEMS OF TSWANA CHIEFS by I. Schapera
V. THE GLORIOUS VICTORIES OF AMDA SEYON, KING OF ETHIOPIA by G. W. B. Huntingford.
VI. A SELECTION OF HAUSA STORIES by H. A. S. Johnston.
VII. THE CONTENT AND FORM OF YORUBA IJALA by S. A. Bababola.
VIII. AKAMBA STORIES by John Mbiti.
IX. LIMBA STORIES AND STORYTELLING by Ruth Finnegan.
X. THE ZANDE TRICKSTER edited by E. E. Evans-Prichard.
XI. IZIBONGO: ZULU PRAISE POEMS by Trevor Cope.
XII. THE MEDICINE MAN: SWIFA YA NGUVUMALI by Hasani Bin Ismail (edited and translated by Peter Lienhardt).
XIII. CHAGA CHILDHOOD by O. R. Raum.
XIV. AFRICAN INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION edited by Arthur Hazelwood.
XV. RHODESIA: THE ROAD TO REBELLION by James Barber.

260

RECENT BOOKS-AFRICA     KAISER

p'Bitek, Okot. SONG OF A PRISONER. Introduction by Edward Blishen. Illustrations by E. Okechukwu Odita. New York: The Third Press. 120 pages. $1.95 (paper). (Another book of poetry by the Ugandan writer. p'Bitek has also written novels and essays.)

A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE SLAVE TRADE. Texts by Isabelle Aguet. Translated by Bonnie Christen. 170 Illustrations. Editions Minerva, S.A., Genève, 1971. (A European book published in Geneva, Switzerland. Imported, remaindered and sold by Marboro Books, 131 Varick St., New York City 10012, for $2.98 [No. 3895]. Other recent books on the slave trade are James Pope-Hennessy's Sins of the Fathers: A Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders, 1441-1807 [Knopf, 1968] and F. George Kay's The Shameful Trade [A. S. Barnes, 1968].)

Pieterse, Cosmo and Donald Munro (editors). PROTEST AND CONFLICT IN AFRICAN LITERATURE. New York: Africana Publishing Corp. $4.50 (cloth); $2.45 (paper).

Polatnick, Florence T. and Alberta L. Saletan. SHAPERS OF AFRICA. New York: Julian Messner. 184 pages. $3.50. (About Mansa Musa of hte Mali Empire, Queen Nzinga of Angola, Samuel Ajayi Crowther of Nigeria. Moshoeshoe of Lesotho and Tom Mboya of Kenya.)

Potalnick, Florence T. and Alberta L. Saletan. ZAMBIA'S PRESIDENT, KENNETH KAUNDA. New York: Julian Messner. 188 pages. $4.29.

Radin, Paul (editor). AFRICAN FOLKTALES. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press.

Robinson, William H. (editor). NOMMO: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN BLACK AFRICAN AND BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE. New York: Macmillan. xvi, 501 pages. $5.95 (paper). (This book has essays, excerpts from novels, short stories, parts of dramas and poetry by African writers. The biographical sketches are very helpful and the five-page bibliography of modern African literature is very good.)

Rotberg, Robert I. and Ali A. Mazuri (editors). PROTEST AND POWER IN BLACK AFRICA. New York: Oxford University Press. xxx, 1,274 pages. $25.00.

Rotberg, Robert I. (editor). REBELLION IN BLACK AFRICA. New York: Oxford University Press. xxiii, 261 pages. $2.95 (paper).

Roucek, Joseph S. and Thomas Kiernan (editors). THE NEGRO IMPACT ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION. New York: Philosophical Library. xii, 506 pages. $15.00. (The essays here are very uneven. Some are very good, some mediocre, some poor. They cover the contributions of Africans and of Blacks in the Americas in the fields of history, exploration, science, religious thought, world religion, music and dance, sports, journalism, education, entertainment, world politics, Latin American history and culture, soldering, literature, philosophy and social science, Spanish culture by the Moors and art. See the essay-review of this book by Ernest Kaiser in Science and Society, Fall 1972.)

261 

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-19 13:56:26