| Abstract: | Modern African literature, in the general pattern of other literatures, may be said to have settled down after a period of intense activity that produced a stream of works ranging in quality from dull to interesting to occasionally outstanding. Striking in this survey of contemporary African literature is that during 1966-1967 only two writers referred to in the article voice any social or political criticism, the poet Lenrie Peters of Gambia and the novelist Camara Laye of Guinea. List of works cited. |