SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED
The FESTAC Colloquium was planned according to this printed program, and later changes were made. Below are just a few of the papers.
AUSTRALIA
Janet Layton, Black Civilization and Philosophy
CANADA
Wilson Head, Blacks in Canada: Problems of Adaptation in a North American Multicultural Society
Alwin C. Spence, Self-Concepts and Attitudes Toward Counseling
CONGO
Antoine Ndinga, Presentation of Lingala, Common Language of Zaire and the People's Republic of Congo
GHANA
N. K. Dzobo, Black Civilization as Cultural Product of Conceptual Creativity
S. F. Galevo, Black Civilization and the Arts: African Art in Search of a New Identity
KENYA
M. H. Abdulaziz, Black Civilization and the Development of Indigenous Languages
P. N. Kavyu, The Role of Traditional Musical Instruments in Music
H. Odera Oruka, Punishment and Terrorism in Africa
MAURITIUS
Noah M. Mpangala, No Hope for Survival of Black Culture in the Next Century
NIGERIA
Adeboye Babalola, The Expressiveness of African Languages: The Case of Yoruba
L. Ayo Banjo, Language Policy in Nigeria
J. V. B. Danquah, An Appraisal of African Systems of Thought: Some Ancient Egyptian Systems of Thought
R. N. Egudu, Africanity in Modern African Literature
Z. Sofola, The Concept of Tragedy in African Experience
SIERRA LEONE
G. M. Carew, The Underlying Philosophical Connotations of Some Mende Proverbs
E. J. T. Palmer, Sierre Leone Poetry in English
SUDAN
Muhammad Abdul-Hai, Conflict and Identity: The Cultural Poetics of Contemporary Sudanese Poetry
USA
Lucius Outlaw, Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Social-Political Theory: Critical Thought in the Interest of African Americans
Darwin T. Turner, Notes in Chaos: Issues and Problems in Interpreting and Evaluating Literature by Afro-Americans
ZAMBIA
Paul A Mwaipaya, The Principle of Goodness in the Philosophy of Zambian Humanism