This map is on the cover of Africa Seen by AmericanNegroes(Paris: Presence Africaine Cahier Special, 1958), an important anthology of 21 lrnmanities and social science essays written by leading African American scholars actively engaged in the study of Africa in the 1950s. Presence Africaine has a long-standing commitment to publishing works about Africa and the African diaspora written by African and African American authors. This work is from the collections of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University. Established in 1954, the Herskovits Library is the largest separate library for the study of Africa in the United States. (Illustration reproduced by permission of Presence Africaine.)