ABSTRACT
On May 13, 1961, the New Yorker magazine published a long (12,000 word) essay by Harold Isaacs, self-advertised as a “special” 279inquirer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for International Studies, under the title, “Back to Africa”. On June 22, 1961, the Reporter magazine published an article by Russell Warren Howe, advertised as a reporter for “American, British, and Indian” newspapers. Howe’s subject was, “Strangers in Africa”.
