{"value"=>"Sc Audio C-029: Recorded Comments by Writers on African Writing"}
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{"value"=>"<p>v01f01: Comments by Richard Rive.</p> <ol class=\"list\"> <li>Richard Rive comments on the African novel in English. Chinua Achebe's <em>A Man of the People</em>, William Farquhar Conton's novels, and Alex La Guma's <em>A Walk in the Night</em> are discussed. Conton was a Sierra Leonean Creole educator, historian, and novelist. 1963 August.</li> <li>Richard Rive comments on African short stories. Alex La Guma's \"A Glass of Wine,\" J. Arthur Maimane's \"The Hungry Boy,\" Efua Sutherland's \"New Life at Kyerefaso,\" and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o \"The Martyr\" are discussed. 1963 August.</li> <li>Richard Rive comments on African drama. Wole Soyinka's <em>A Dance in the Forest</em>, J. P. Clark's <em>The Song of the Goat</em>, and Lewis Nkosi's <em>A Rhythm of Violence</em> are discussed. 1963 August.</li> <li>Richard Rive comments on Mozambican poetry. 1963 August.</li></ol>"}
{"value"=>"<p>v01f02: Comments by John Nagenda, Lewis Nkosi, John Mbiti, and Bloke Modisane.</p> <ol class=\"list\"> <li>John Nagenda comments on <em>Black Orpheus</em>. He discusses writers whose work appeared in recent issues of <em>Black Orpheus</em>. 1963 September.</li> <li>John Nagenda comments on Tom Mboya's book <em>Freedom and After</em>. Mboya was a leader of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) political party. He was one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya, a trade unionist, educator, Pan-Africanist, author, independence activist, and statesman. He served as the first secretary-general of Kenya. 1963 October.</li> <li>Lewis Nkosi comments on Dennis Brutus's first collection of poetry, <em>Sirens, Knuckles, and Boots</em>. 1963 October.</li> <li>Lewis Nkosi comments on Bloke Modisane's book <em>Blame Me on History</em>. 1963 October.</li> <li>Lewis Nkosi comments on the periodical <em>Okyeame</em>, published in Accra, Ghana. Joan Hooley reads excerpts of Kofi Awoonor's poems. 1963 November.</li> <li>Lewis Nkosi comments on Mongo Beti's writing. Mongo Beti, also known as Eza Boto, and birth name Alexandre Biyidi Awala, was a Cameroonian writer. 1963 November.</li> <li>John Mbiti comments on Julius Nyerere's Swahili translation of Shakespeare's <em>Julius Caesar</em>. 1963.</li> <li>Bloke Modisane comments on Richard Rive's <em>Quartet: New Voices from South Africa</em>, a collection of South African short stories. 1963 December.</li> <li>Lewis Nkosi comments on R. J. Mugo Gatheru's memoir <em>Child of Two Worlds</em>. Gatheru was a Kenyan writer and professor at California State University, Sacramento from 1968 to 2002. 1964 April.</li></ol>"}