Part One: ON CULTURE -- Towards a national culture -- KenyaL: the two rifts -- Mau Mau: voilence, and culture -- Church, culture and politics -- Part Two: WRITERS IN AFERICA -- The writer and his past -- The writer in a changing society -- Chinua Achebe: a man of the people -- Wole Soyinka, T. M. Aluko and the Satiric Voice -- Okot p'Bitek and writing in East Africa -- PART THREE: WRITERS FROM THE BARIBBEAN -- A kind of homecoming -- What is my colour, what is my race? -- George Lamming's in the castle of my skin -- George Lamming and the colonial situation -- APPENDIX -- On the abolition of the English department