interview with Charles Saunders.

[delux_vivens]

He's one of the ground-breaking figures in black American SF&F. Inspired by genre literature written earlier in the century (literature which almost universally depicted Africans in a negative light), he decided to reshape the literature with his own contributions, most notably with his character Imaro (whom Saunders describes as the "antidote to

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[rambleman]

that's an excellent interview, though it's showing its age by saying the Imaro stories are out-of-print... Imaro was just recently reprinted by Night Shade Books, who i believe, plan to bring the rest back as well if possible.