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Portland/obaerver
Thursday, March 29, 1973
See WATTSTAX with
Black publisher
gets Brooks’ book
Gwendolyn Brook's auto­
biography. Report from Part
Oae, recently made publish
ing history.
Ii. is the first
book issued by a small Black
publisher to be reviewed on
page one of the prestigious
New York Times Book Re
view. America's most in­
fluential btH>k review me
dium.
In the January 7 issue,
reviewer Toni Cade Bambara
called t h e
book "an ex­
tremely valuable book that is
all of a piece and readable
and
memorable in unex­
pected ways."
Response to the review
was so good that the pub­
lisher. Broadside Press of
Detroit, ordered a second
printing of 5.000 one month
after publication.
The book made history in
other ways also. In a pre­
publication excerpt in the
September Black World mag
azine, editor Hoyt W. Fuller
commented. " It is a singu
larly important event, for it
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marks a turning point in
American publishing:
Miss
Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize-
winning poet and the poet
laureate of Illinois, performs
an act of commitment by
entrusting her work to a
small, struggling Black pub­
lishing house."
The book is also excerpted
in the March Ebony, with
sections telling of the fabu-
I o u s parties of Chicago's
writers, dancers, artists in
the 1940's and 50's, and of
Miss Brook's startling intro­
duction to the new Black
poets at a w riters' confer
ence at Fisk University in
1967.
Miss Brooks won the Pulit
zer Prize for poetry in 1950
with Annie Allen and in 1966
was appointed poet laureate
of Illinois. In 1969 her book
In the Mecca was nominatec
for the National Book Award.
Two additional reviews of
Report from Part One ap­
pear in the March Black
World.
287 - 2887
Touring West Africa:
Where it all began
If family histories could be
traced, probably every Atro-
American would find ances
tors who left for American
from West Africa, t h e i r
points of departure, the slave
"castles" scattered along the
coast.
Cities along the
Niger, Senegal and Gambia
Rivers provided slaves for
Europe as well as America in
a profitable traffic that con­
tinued for more than 200
years until it was finally
outlawed in America in 1806.
Many of the slave houses are
being restored for tourists.
But of even greater interest
to t h e
Afro-American, it
would seem, are the cultures
that their forbearers left
behind. In many cases, these
were highly advanced civili­
zations that can contribute
immeasurably to the pride of
Americans of African de­
scent.
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the Sahara Desert, f r o m
where most American slaves
were shipped.
And new
group inclusive tour rates
make Africa available to the
middle income traveller. I t ’s
a vacation to uncover impor
tant roots to an older civili­
zation and one to enjoy with
excellent tourist facilities and
accommodations throughout.
Melia In te rn a tio n a l, the
third largest tour operator in
the world, working with A ir
Afrique, has introduced three
itineraries, one combining an
African vacation with Spain,
another with a cruise and a
third with the Canary Is
lands off the African north
west coast.
They all add
important relaxation before
the return flight home.
West Africa Plus Spain is
an 18-day tour that starts in
Dakar, capital of Senegal and
includes an excursion
Goree Island to see one of
New tours to W est Africa
the
most important slave
concentrate on areas west of
houses. The tour then pro­
ceeds to Casablanca. Fes and
Tangier before crossing over
into Spain for a stopover in
Torremolinos, the most popu
lar beach resort on the Cost
del Sol, or the Spanish Rivi­
era as it is often called. It
then continues on to Seville,
Cordoba and Madrid. Price,
based on G IT (Group Inclu­
sive Tour) rates requiring 15
people travelling together, is
$761 during basic season.
$818 during t h e
summer
months.
West Africa and the Ivory
Coast is a 20-day vacation to
Abidjan, capital of the Ivory
Coast, Miameyand Bamako
on the Niger River, Baoule
National Park. Timbuktu, also
on the Niger River. Dakar on
the Atlantic Coast, with the
last three nights spent in Las
Palmas, a sea resort in the
Canary Islands. Price, based
on G IT rates with 15 persons
travelling together, is $1,013
during peak season a n d
$1,066 in summer.
African Lnnd-and-Sea Holi­
day is a 2-week vacation
including six nights on the
award winning Italian cruise
ship, the M /V Irpinia. The
tour goes to Abidjan on the
Atlantic side of the Ivory
Coast and then to Dakar
where the ship is boarded.
There are stops at Bathurst
on the Gambia River, one of
the most important channels
for slave transportation, and
Las Palmas for a relaxing
day on the beach. The ship
returns to Dakar for the last
three nights. The price de
pends upon cabin selection,
but an average cost including
a cabin on a middle-level
deck would be $805 per
person, based on G IT rates
with 15 people travelling
together for the air portion.
In booking these tours, the
traveller need not be con
cerned about organizing a
group. The wholesaler - in
this case, Melia Tours
gets
t h e group together com
bining orders from travel
agents.
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