Sc Audio C-100: Recorded Comments by African Writers on African Writers; and Comments by African Writers and Scholars on Political, Historical, and Social Writing

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{"value"=>"<p>v01f01: Comments by Lewis Nkosi. Comments on political, historical, and social writing by Asfa Damte, Ali Mazrui, John Mbiti, Mazisi Kunene, Rashid Holloway, and S.V. Mtambanegwe.</p> <ol class=\"list\"> <li>Lewis Nkosi reviews <em>A Selection of African Prose</em> compiled by W.H. Whiteley. 1964 July 10.</li> <li>Lewis Nkosi reviews <em>The Heroic Recitations of the Bahima of Ankole</em>, edited by Henry Francis Morris. 1964 July 22.</li> <li>Asfa Damte reviews Mamadou Dia's book <em>African Nations and Solidarity</em>. Dia was a Senegalese politician who served as the first prime minister of Senegal from 1957 to 1962. 1962 September.</li> <li>Ali Mazrui reviews Conor Cruise O'Brien's book <em>To Katanga and Back</em>. O'Brien was an Irish diplomat, politician, writer, historian, and academic. 1962 November.</li> <li>John S. Mbiti reviews Godfrey Lienhardt's book <em>Divinity and Experience</em>. Lienhardt was a British anthropologist who studied the Dinka people. 1962 November.</li> <li>John Mbiti reviews Monica Wilson's book <em>Rituals of Kinship Among the Nyakyusa</em>. Wilson was a South African anthropologist. 1962 December.</li> <li>Ali Mazrui reviews <em>Continuity and Change in African Cultures</em>, edited by William R. Bascom. Bascom was an award-winning American folklorist, anthropologist, and museum director. He specialized in the art and culture of west Africa and the African diaspora, especially the Yoruba people of Nigeria. 1963 January.</li> <li>Mazisi Kunene reviews <em>The Dynamics of the South African Congress</em> by Edward Feit. 1963 January.</li> <li>Ali Mazrui reviews <em>Survey of International Affairs, 1956-58</em>, whose general editor is Geoffrey Barraclough. Barraclough was an English historian. 1963 January.</li> <li>Ali Mazrui reviews <em>The Concept of Empire: Burke to Attlee</em>, edited by George Bennett. 1963 January.</li> <li>John Mbiti reviews <em>East African Rebels</em> by Frederick B. Welbourn. 1963 February.</li> <li>Rashid Holloway reviews \"The West African Intellectual Community,\" a paper delivered at the International Seminar on Inter-University Co-operation in West Africa, held in 1961 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. 1963 March.</li> <li>Ali Mazrui reviews the first issue of <em>The Journal of Modern African Studies</em>. 1963 April.</li> <li>S.V. Mtambanegwe reviews <em>African One-Party States</em>, edited by Gwendolen M. Carter. Carter was a Canadian-American political scientist and one of the founders of the African studies field in the United States. 1963 November.</li></ol>"}

{"value"=>"<p>v01f02: Comments by John Nagenda, Rashid Holloway, Sillaty Dabo, John Mbiti, Lewis Nkosi, Paul Mbalyi, Alfred Hutchinson, Teresa Owusu, and Michael Olisa.</p> <ol class=\"list\"> <li>John Nagenda reviews <em>Beyond All Pity</em> by Carolina Maria de Jesus. Carolina Maria de Jesus was a Brazilian author known for her memoirs about life and poverty in the favela. 1963 June.</li> <li>Rashid Holloway critiques an essay written by Léopold S. Senghor entitled \"Négritude and African Socialism.\" 1963 June.</li> <li>Sillaty K. Dabo reviews <em>Creoledom</em> by Arthur T. Porter. Porter was a Creole professor, historian, and author. His book is one of the most quoted books on the Creoles. 1963 June.</li> <li>John Mbiti comments on Christian education in Africa. He comments on a report delivered at the All Africa Conference of Churches, held in Salisbury, Rhodesia, in 1962. 1963 October 4.</li> <li>Lewis Nkosi reviews <em>The Whiteman's Future in Black Africa</em> by Thomas Patrick Melady. Melady was an American diplomat and author. 1963 October 20.</li> <li>John Mbiti reviews <em>The Primal Vision</em> by John Vernon Taylor. Taylor was an English bishop and theologian who was the Bishop of Winchester from 1974 to 1985. 1963 November 21.</li> <li>Paul Mbalyi reviews Michael Barratt-Brown's book <em>After Imperialism</em>. Barratt-Brown was a British economist, political activist, and adult educator. 1964 January 10.</li> <li>Alfred Hutchinson reviews <em>Chief Albert Luthuli of South Africa</em>, a biography by Mary Benson. Benson was a South African civil rights campaigner and author. 1964 January.</li> <li>John Mbiti reviews Humphrey J. Fisher's book <em>Ahmadiyyah</em>. Fisher is an emeritus professor in history at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. 1964 January.</li> <li>John Mbiti reviews <em>Mau Mau Detainee</em> by Josiah M. Kariuki. Kariuki was a Kenyan socialist politician during Jomo Kenyatta's administration. 1964 February.</li> <li>John Mbiti reviews a report issued by the All Africa Conference of Churches in 1963 on Christian family life. He also reviews a book by Thomas Price entitled <em>African Marriage</em>. 1964 March.</li> <li>Teresa Owusu reviews <em>Africa in Time Perspective</em> by Daniel F. McCall. McCall was an American anthropologist. 1964 March.</li> <li>John Mbiti reviews Mia Brandel-Syrier's book <em>Black Woman in Search of God</em>. Brandel-Syrier was a British trained social scientist living in South Africa. 1964 April 30.</li> <li>Michael Olisa reviews <em>The Ideologies of Developing Nations</em> by Paul E. Sigmund. Sigmund was a professor of politics at Princeton University. 1964 June 5.</li></ol>"}

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1962-09-01

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1962-09-01

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1964-07-22

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1962

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1964

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