Robert Delavignette was the chairman for this one-day colloquium organised by the Centre de hautes études administratives sur l'Afrique et l'Asie modernes (C.H.E.A.M.), on ‘The Psychology of the Elites of Black Africa’. There were some 60 participants, including many French specialists on Africa, and African teachers, journalists, and intellectuals. Four papers were discussed, each of which had been distributed to the audience in advance, only a brief synopsis being given at the colloquium to introduce the discussion. Between them they touched on a wide variety of problems connected with the psychology of the élite.