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Ibadan, Nigeria: General Publications Section, Ministry of Education, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. A scarce copy of the groundbreaking African literary journal, Black Orpheus, the first African literary journal in English. Ulli Beier, a lecturer at Ibadan University in Nigeria, founded Black Orpheus in 1957. The journal was influential in promoting African writing to a world-wide readership. Black Orpheus was "designed, in a time still dominated by colonialist chauvinism, primarily to educate English-speaking Africans about the rest of the black world, and secondarily to inspire and encourage young writers and teach them about African traditional cultures other than their own." (Peter Benson, Black Orpheus, Transition, and Modern Cultural Awakening in Africa," 1986, page 24). This issue is No. 6 from November 1959 and contains works by a number of distinguished writers. There's poetry by Ezekiel Mphahlele (South Africa), Gabriel Okara (Nigeria), and Léon Damas (France), and short… Read More