# African Review

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{{short description|Ghanaian magazine}}
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'''''The African Review''''' was a magazine published in [Ghana](/source/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](/source/Kwame_Nkrumah), it covered politics, economics and culture from a [socialist](/source/African_socialism) and [anti-colonial](/source/Decolonization) 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](/source/African_Americans_in_Ghana). The author [Julian Mayfield](/source/Julian_Mayfield) was the magazine's editor-in-chief while [Maya Angelou](/source/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](/source/Jean_Carey_Bond), [St. Clair Drake](/source/St._Clair_Drake) and [Preston King](/source/Preston_King_(academic)) also wrote for the magazine while [Tom Feelings](/source/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](/source/Bessie_Head) and the Jamaican poet [Neville Dawes](/source/Neville_Dawes).<ref name=":0" />

''The African Review'' was distributed in by the Publicity Secretariat in Ghana and by [John Henrik Clarke](/source/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](/source/National_Liberation_Council) banned the magazine and publication permanently ceased.<ref name=":0" />

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

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