n English in Africa - Afterword to The Sea My Winding Sheet

Abstract

Just over a dozen years ago, when the first sputnik had been launched, I embarked on an epic poem. The slightly bizarre idea (I had the courage of the young) was to set Africa in that other-world of Greek mythology. I combed Larousse, Smith and Bulfinch among other sources, and later, Graves; but nowhere did the Greeks have a myth for this continent that I could discover.