African Review

{{short description|Ghanaian magazine}} {{Infobox magazine | title = The African Review | logo = | logo_size =  | image_file =  | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = | frequency = Monthly magazine | format = | circulation = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = | founded = 1965 | firstdate =  | finaldate =  | finalnumber = | company = | country = Ghana | based = | language = | website =  | issn = | eissn = | oclc = }} '''''The African Review''''' was a magazine published in Ghana between 1965 and 1966.<ref name=julian>{{Cite web|url=https://newafricanmagazine.com/6170/|title=Maya Angelou's African connection - New African Magazine|website=newafricanmagazine.com|date=14 July 2014 }}</ref> Funded by the government of Kwame Nkrumah, it covered politics, economics and culture from a socialist and anti-colonial perspective.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=American Africans in Ghana {{!}} Kevin K. Gaines |url=https://uncpress.org/book/9780807858936/american-africans-in-ghana/ |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=University of North Carolina Press |language=en-US}}</ref>

Its staff included members of Ghana's prominent African American community. The author Julian Mayfield was the magazine's editor-in-chief while Maya Angelou contributed articles about politics and culture.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Steven J. L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38mGDwAAQBAJ&q=%22african+review%22+magazine+ghana&pg=PA11 |title=Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators: African Americans in Ghana |date=February 1, 2019 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=9781438474724 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=43ArDQAAQBAJ&q=%22african+review+magazine%22&pg=PA244|title=History of African Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots|first=Thomas J. Davis|last=Ph.D|date=October 24, 2016|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313385414|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=White |first=Alex |date=2024-01-22 |title=The caged bird sings of freedom: Maya Angelou's anti-colonial journalism in the United Arab Republic and Ghana, 1961–1965 |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/a7899cd8-1752-444a-80e2-20dd92a464f6/download |journal=Journal of Global History |language=en |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1017/S1740022823000293 |issn=1740-0228|doi-access=free }}</ref> Jean Carey Bond, St. Clair Drake and Preston King also wrote for the magazine while Tom Feelings contributed original artwork.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pWaDCwAAQBAJ&q=%22african+review+magazine%22&pg=PA95|title=Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago|first=Kymberly N.|last=Pinder|date=January 30, 2016|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=9780252098086|via=Google Books}}</ref> It also featured early work by the Botswanan author Bessie Head and the Jamaican poet Neville Dawes.<ref name=":0" />

''The African Review'' was distributed in by the Publicity Secretariat in Ghana and by John Henrik Clarke in the United States, but poor funding appears to have limited its reach elsewhere. After a coup toppled the Nkrumah government in 1966, the newly-formed National Liberation Council banned the magazine and publication permanently ceased.<ref name=":0" />

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Category:Society of Ghana Category:Nkrumaism Category:Magazines published in Africa