Abstract
James Campbell states inExiled in Paristhat Richard Wright once claimed in his journal that he would write the best book on Africa during his time (185). Wright eventually wrote on Africa, but his travelogue entitledBlack Power(1954) is one of his most criticized books, especially by Africans who feel betrayed and misrepresented. Concurring, John Gruesser contends in “Afro-American Travel Literature and African Discourse” that the disillusioned and alienated Wright, like William Gardner Smith, Maya Angelou, and Gwendolyn Brooks, fails to represent Africans accurately. Despite his self-declared hybridity, Wright neither identifies nor upholds African tradition, nor does he