Analyzes the principles of consanguinity and conjugality in African family organization. Shows how understanding African families can be useful in studying how Afro-American family structure evolved in the United States. (EF)

Among the aims of the festival are: 1) to ensure the revival, resurgence, and propagation of black and African culture and black and African cultural values and civilization, and 2) to promote black and African artists, performers, and writers and facilitate their world acceptance. (Author/AM)

FESTAC 1977 was the culmination of the many investigations, diversity of expression and the myriad ways black people are identifiable with African heritage. (Author)

An annotated listing, by publisher, of Black and Black-related books, described as incomplete due to space limitations. Includes novels, scholarly analyses, poetry, history, cultural studies, political studies, biographies, how-to manuals, bibliographies, drama, literary criticism, and folklore. (CMG)

Reviews Maulana Karenga's "Introduction to Black Studies" (1982). Discusses the academic and social relevance of the discipline and its growth out of economic, political, and historical forces. Concurs with Karenga's Afrocentric approach but notes the difficulties in its implementation within the current academic climate. (GC)

Discusses the development of social values and the birth of the poet; the first poets and the crystallization of poetic symbols, including Black and White symbols; India as a civilization conquered by poetry; African and African-American poetic resistance to imperialist social values; African combat poetry; and the Black value-setting in the…

Argues that Afro-American music derives from an African continuum, from a musicology, and from tonal and rhythmic values which were and are distinctly African; and that Afro-American tradition is a folk tradition. (Author/JM)

Discusses the diverse cultures in Africa, and the effects of colonization by the French, English, and Portuguese. Explores how culture is used for political purposes in emerging African nations and as a tool for rewriting a past misinterpreted by colonial powers. Discusses issues of cultural pluralism in African countries. (JS)

The actuality of black kinship bonds and the sense of extended family are exemplifications of the sense of Africanity in black families.. (Author)

For many years, the dominant image of Africa seen on Western films was that of condescension and paternalism. The history of films about Africa, with some exceptions to the prevailing portrayals, is traced; and the origin and growth of the African film industry are reviewed. (SLD)

Discusses eight novels by the following female novelists from Africa: (1) Buchi Emecheta; (2) Flora Nwapa; (3) Bessie Head; and (4) Mariama Ba. Explores customs and attitudes that cause the most suffering to their female characters. Examines signs of change which suggest hope for the elimination of these causes. (JS)