Africa Speaks: Fiction, Drama, Poetry Etc.

Those of us who communicate only in English are limited in full exposure to African literary expression. While most creative expression by black Africans is oral, much has also been written in languages foreign to those of us oriented only to English. In the following list, therefore, any efforts to be exhaustive are controlled by the inaccessibility of materials in English, and by economy of time and space. The hope is to stimulate interest in enjoyable reading of materials written by black Africans by suggesting some of the works currently available in the Afro-American collection of the Service Center Branch of the Richmond, California Public Library. This annotated bibliography is divided into fiction, drama, poetry, anthologies, autobiographies, criticism, and phonograph records. The country of origin is denoted for most entries. (Author/SJ)