Charles Larson, pioneering scholar of African literature, dies at 83

He sought to promote African writers through the numerous anthologies that he edited. In “Opaque Shadows,” he “selected superb stories that focus, without self-consciousness or remonstration, on the human condition as it presently exists among a variety of African people,” James Alan McPherson, the first Black writer to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, wrote in a New York Times review.