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[Full Text] In issue number 10 Okike: An African Journal of New Writing, edited by Chinua Achebe, announced its return from the United States to Nigeria after an absence of four years. The issue is focused mainly on writing from eastern Africa, with contributions by Kenyans (Malusu Jose, Taban Lo Liyong, Stephen Ndichu, Barry Odour-Otieno, J. A. Opiche, Osotsi), Ugandans (Okot P'Bitek, Peter Nazareth), and a Somali (Abdi Sheik-Abdi). There are also items from other parts of the world, including poems by Andrew Salkey, and an instalment of Ezekiel Mphahlele's "Notes from the Black American World", entitled "Images of Africa in Afro-American Literature". Traditional oral narrative styles, as in Sheik-Abdi and P'Bitek, jostle the contemporary verse libre of Salkey and Ndichu. This combination is to be found also in the eleventh issue of Okike, which is devoted largely to writing by South Africans, including Don Mattera, Zulu Molefe, and Oswald Mtshali. Okike is handsomely designed and produced and the contents are impressive evidence of the range and vitality of African letters today.