Preface  ix

Prologue: A Candle at Kilimanjaro  1

Part 1. The Crisis of Independence  

1. Colonial Legacies  7

2. Pr�nce Africaine and the Expression of Cultural Freedom  20

Part 2. The Arts and Cultural Independence  

3. The Visual Arts and African Independence  47

4. The Independent African Theater  59

5. African Dance  82

6. Literary Perspectives of Cultural Independence  107

Part 3. Educational Independence  

7. The Search for a Usable Past  129

8. The Idea of an African University  157

9. Organizing Africana  177

Part 4. A Modern African Civilization  

10. The African Personality and Europe  201

11. An African Voice  227

Notes  245

Bibliography  257

Index  263

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