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This posthumously published novel by Killens (1916–87), a founder of the Black Arts Movement, is a major addition to his oeuvre. Set in the 1980s, it centers on James Jay Leander Johnson, a Black folk singer from Mississippi who journeys to Africa to find himself. He mistakenly deplanes in the fictitious People's Democratic Republic of Guanaya, a newly independent backwater suddenly being wooed by the Cold War powers after vast de...Log In or Sign Up to Read More