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The volume is divided into four parts. Part I, Ancient Africa, is concerned primarily with traditional African societies. Part II appears under the title Revolutionary Africa, to emphasize those important developments across the continent that characterized the nineteenth century. Part III, Colonial Africa, covers the brief but pivotal era of colonial control, leading to Part IV, Independent Africa, now a history in its own right, fully a generation old. Each chapter provides suggestions for additional reading for those who wish to explore further. (DÜI-Hff)

'The artist has always functioned in African society', he said, 'the record of mores and experiences of his society and … the voice of vision in his own time. It is time', he concluded, 'for [the artist] to respond to this essence of himself.' The words appeared in mid-1967; their author Wole Soyinka, already celebrated as a leading poet and dramatist, representing the younger generation of writers among Africa's newly independent nations.