This compilation of working papers is part 1 of the proceedings of the ACTFL 1972 preconference workshop on black francophone literature. Part 2, to be completed in the future, will be a bibliography containing primary and secondary sources, textbooks, articles, a glossary of African terms, and resource materials useful in language classrooms. The papers are summarized under the following headings: (1) African Religious Orientation; (2) Physical Africa; (3) Art, Music, and Dance; (4) African History; (5) Literature of West Africa; (6) Literature of Central and Equatorial Africa; (7) Caribbean Literature; and (8) Pedagogy. An appendix contains an alphabetical listing of resource consultants and chairmen who participated in the workshop and who may be contacted for further information. (AM)