"Africa is one of the centerpieces of fantasy in our time. Its ambiguity and variety have always challenged the imagination, partly through dark and brutal acts, partly through a vitality that interweaves the subtle and the sizzling. Though Africa’s cooperation fueled the Atlantic slave trade, though its conquest stands as a repulsive record of colonial misjudgments and excesses, and though its periodic coups are usually the work of blue-ribbon brutes, the continent’s people constitute a startling and inspiring catalogue of languages, customs, and physical types. ..."
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NYBooks: The Stanley Crouch I Knew (Sep. 2020)
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