Guardian, Oct 6, 1971. p.9

‘The Poetry of Pride and Regeneration’, Lewis Nkosi

Article by Lewis Nkosi about Black US authors:

‘…it is JB operating in the unlikely medium of the essay and the novelistic prose, who brings to the English language the sing-song rhythms of the Negro sermon and the murderous rhetoric of the Negro uprising as, significantly, it is Baldwin who first recognises that: “For the horrors of the American Negro’s life there has been almost no language”, that the “privacy of his experience has been denied or ignored in official and popular speech.”