Contents:
INTRODUCTION
Home and exile / Lewis Nkosi
FAMILY
No longer at ease / Chinua Achebe
The Interpreters / Wole Soyinka
Beautiful feathers / Cyprian Ekwensi
The Opportunity / Arthur Maimane
EDUCATION
Tell freedom / Peter Abrahams
Weep not, child / James Ngugi
America, their America / J.P. Clark
I will try / Legson Kayira
POLITICS
People of the city / Cyprian Ekwensi
No easy task / Aubrye Kachingwe
Beautiful feathers / Cyprian Ekwensi
The Beautyfull ones are not yet born / Ayi Kwei Armah
ECONOMICS
Kinsman and foreman /
Weep not, child / James Ngugi
Mine boy / Peter Abrahams
The Gab boys / Cameron Duodu
The Interpreters / Wole Sayinka
RACE
Houseboy / Ferdinand Oyono
"Telephone conversation" / Wole Sayinka
Papa, the snake and I / Luis Bernardo Honwana
The Park / James Matthews
The Living and the dead / Ezekiel Mphahlele
RELIGION
The African child / Camara Laye
The Catechist / Joseph W. Abruquah
Down Second Avenue / Ezekiel Mphahlele
24 poems / Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
A Grain of Wheat / James Ngugi