Tempels, Placide ; A Rubbens — La Philosophie Bantoue

Paris, France, Presence Africaine, 1949. Softcover. White wraps with black and brown text. 125 pp. Some bw illustrations. Text in French. "Here is an essential book for the black, his awareness, his thirst to situate himself in relation to Europe. It must also be the bedside book for all those who are concerned with understanding the African and engaging in a living dialogue with him. For me, this litle book is the most important of those I have read about Afirca: it is that my concerns pushed me to hope so. As they pushed me to hope that Jean-Paul Sartre put his remarkable talent and his rare moral independence to project the flashes of his bright, subtle and agile mind, on the still imprecise meanders of our dark destiny." - introduction. VG- (Minor shelfwear to wraps, pages sunned, pen on endpages, all else excellent) .