A blazing and astute drama set in an Africa facing the crisis of transition from colonialism to independence and cultural identity, Les Blancs is the boldest and most ambitious play by the author of A Raisin in the Sun. Unproduced at the time of its author's death at the age of thirty-four, brutally cut for its posthumous Broadway premiere in 1970, Les Blancs has now finally become vailable for production in its intended form. It is a sweeping, eloquent, and balanced epic which compellingly portrays the personal dilemmas of both blacks and whites caught up by traumatic history.