Transition immediately forged a distinctive style. Never afraid to offend, Transition frequently invited controversy with articles about literary and racial politics, sex, stereotypes, and war. Transition was unlike anything else, in Africa or abroad, and when it folded in 1976 it left a void. Gates, a student of Soyinka's at Cambridge University and a frequent contributor to the Ghanian Transition , brought the magazine back to life in 1991. Gates is philosophical about the magazine's expanded purview.
Transition reflects the centrality of both to each other.
There are many surprises. It's amazing, a sober appreciation of JFK as a racial realist and a principled defender of human rights. Taylor Branch, King's biographer, had never heard of it until we told him about it. Commercial use of the copyrighted texts and images is not permitted without express consent of Duke University Press. 2001by Duke University Press and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute.