BLACK Orpheus: a journal of African and Afro-American literature
Date
1958-10
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Publisher
Ibadan: The General Publications Section, Ministry Of Education,
Abstract
Paul Vesey- Georg Dickenberger; Seven Poems- Paul Vesey; Mister. Johnson' reconsidered- Gerald Moore; The Suitcase- Ezekiel Mpahlelc; Shango shrine- Ulli Beier; Ewe poetry- Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortt; migrants with manuscripts- Randolph Rawlins.
Description
African poetry has this in common with surrealism, that the image does not merely stand for what it describes. But at the same time it differs from it. because there is no arbitrary interchanging, the image always symbolizes the reality that lies behind the temporary' world. Leopold Sedar Senghor has expressed this as follows: "The image is not an equation, but an analogy, a super-real image. An object does not mean what it represents, but what it suggests, or what it creates. Every conception is an image. And the image is not an equation but a symbol, an ideogram.