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The Road to Africa
White, Walter | June 26, 1929 issue

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This article discusses two book "Black Magic," by Paul Morand, and "Travels in the Congo," by André Gide. Beyond the nationality of the authors and their subject matter the linking abruptly ends. For Morand, despite his boast of having traveled thirty thousand miles in visiting twenty-eight Negro countries, might far more profitably have spent all this time and energy observing one Negro and finding out what that Negro's thoughts and reactions really were before he began to write. Morand has most superficially though entertainingly looked at the outermost layers of Negro mentality, the result is an amusing and, at times, well written series of sketches of how Paul Morand thinks he would react were he a Negro.

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BLACK Magic (Book); TRAVELS in the Congo (Book); MORAND, Paul; GIDE, Andre, 1869-1951; BLACKS; MAGIC; AFRICA
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