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FREEDOMWAYS                      THIRD QUARTER 1973

poet and novelist Soyinka's imprisonment during the Biafran civil war in Nigeria which was fought from 1967 to 1970. Other recent books by Soyinka are the novel The Interpreters [reprinted] and A Shuttle in the Crypt, poetry.)
Spalding, Henry D. (editor). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BLACK FOLKLORE AND HUMOR. Introduction by J. Mason Brewer. Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, N.Y. 11379. 589 pages. (This is a huge collection of Black folklore and humor, historical and contemporary, with a good informative introduction for the sections.)  
Tyson, Jr., George F. (editor). TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. $6.95 (cloth); $2.45 (paper). (Another volume in the Great Lives Observed series. Other volumes in this series are Benjamin Quarles's Frederick Douglass, Emma Lou Thornbrough's Brooker T. Washington and E. David Cronon's Marcus Garvey coming soon.)
Wagner, Jean. BLACK POETS OF THE UNITED STATES: FROM PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TO LANGSTON HUGHES. Translated by Kenneth Douglas. Foreward by Robert Bone. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. xxiii, 561 pages. $15.00 (cloth); $5.50 (paper). (This is the English translation of the French critic and scholar Wagner's exhaustive doctoral dissertation published ten years ago in France. Wager has written about Black writers for Black World and other publications.)
Walcott, Derek. ANOTHER LIFE. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 152 pages. $7.95. (A fifth book of poetry by the outstanding Black Caribbean author of several plays including Ti-Jean and His Brothers and Dream on Monkey Mountain, both produced recently in New York. Walcott's other books of poetry are The Selected Poems of Derek Walcott, The Castaway and Other Poems, The Gulf; Poems and In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960.)
Walton, Ortiz. M. MUSIC: BLACK, WHITE, & BLUE. New York: William Morrow. ix, 180 pages. $6.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper).
Weare, Walter B. BLACK BUSINESS IN THE NEW SOUTH: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. x, 312 pages. $10.95.
Wideman, John Edgar. THE LYNCHERS. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 264 pages. $6.95. (This is black writer Wideman's third novel. His other novels are A Glance Away, 1967, and Hurry Home, 1970. Wideman is in search of a major theme about Black life, but his three novels are too contrived, too arty to be the real thing. He should either look for a novel in his own family or learn as much as he can about the lives of other Blacks who can be novelized.)
Williams, John A. FLASHBACKS: A TWENTY-YEAR DIARY OF ARTICLE WRITING. New York: Doubleday. 440 pages. $8.95. (A collection of Williams's essays with headnotes on his relationships with the magazine editors who commissioned them. Williams has written six novels, a travelogue This Is My Country Too, a terrible book about Dr. King The King God Didn't Save and other books.)
Willie, Charles V. and Arline McCord. BLACK STUDENTS AT WHITE COLLEGES. New York: Praeger Publications. $10.00. (Discusses the many problems of Black students at white colleges and makes recommendations to college administrators. Dr. Willie, former Black head of the sociology department at Syracuse University, is now vice president for student affairs there.

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