The important element in the book is the present political and social conditions in Africa and the outlook for the future which they imply. I think the chapters dealing with the Union of South Africa are the sharpest, most acute, and possibly the saddest in this book. Tanganyika, starting with Kilimanjaro and Uganda make up the section on British East Africa - Tanganyika being a UN trust territory administered by the British, Uganda a protectorate. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print.

To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. This section goes deep into British governance, then the Mau-Mau, and covers off Zanzibar and relationship between the Sultan and the British Resident.

Gunther has interesting chapters on Portuguese Africa, on Rhodesia and Nyasaland, on the Belgian Congo, on British A Vest Africa with principal reference to Nigeria and the Gold Coast. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 952 pages; Description: xxiii, 952 p. It is with this experience that he seeks to evaluate John Gunther’s most ambitious survey, Inside Africa.

France has done many notable things in North Africa and has followed a policy of assimilation of the natives into French culture, and in the case of Algeria of political equality with citizens of Metropolitan France. On the British West Coast we have encountered the highest advance of colonial peoples toward effective selfgovernment. Gunther draws are still relevant today: Africa needs education, not wepons and we must not ignore Africa.

France seems to be a bit more reluctant to leave everything behind, is apparently working on assimilating its people and even has black representatives in the French Legislature in Paris! Gunther wrote his classic memoir Death Be Not Proud, published in 1949, to commemorate the courage and spirit of this extraordinary boy. It certainly helped backfill some colonial history I was a bit vague on, and some parts were fascinating. Scholars may find that its very scope precludes detailed analysis of any one particular subject, but Mr.

Missing DJ, light shelf and edge wear with corners lightly bumped, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. He and Frances Fineman, whom he married in 1927, had a daughter who died four months after her birth in 1929. WITH ''The Africans'' David Lamb has produced a timely and valuable work that cuts through many of the distorted images propagated by Africans themselves, by the continent's apologists and by its detractors.

Defenseless Africa, already conquered and divided, but with only a fraction of its potentials realized or exploited, lies there today—perhaps the hope of the world, perhaps destined to chaos. xi 960 pp, with clr dj, clr map on pdp, silver gilt titling to spine, 1 or 2 b/w diagrams, a cood copy of this autobiographical adventure into Africa, still with original dust jacket. Very good book (clean, crisp interior, tight binding, exterior covers shows some wear in upper right corner and to extremities) in a good dust jacket (tears, creases, rubbing, and losses overall).

Nigeria gets a long mention - held up as the most advanced and successful British protectorate, already partly self-ruled and moving towards full independence by 1960. LAMB'S perspective is a broad one, in that he essentially castigates Africa's elitist leadership, sympathizes with the ordinary people and seeks a solution to the continent's problems through the establishment of responsible leadership and a middle class to provide the backbone of a new society.

People who he views as great men often turned out in reality to be brutal thugs and Africa fell far behind his predictions. Gunther s 40,000 miles of often difficult travel in a continent about four times the size of the United States, he interviewed formally over 1500 people. In 1942, as a Staff Officer in G2, he was assigned to the section covering the campaign in North Africa, and after the successful termination of that operation he teas sent to Dakar as our Military Observer in French West Africa. There is only so much justice nine-hundred pages can do, but it certainly beats Inside Asia, which while not a bad book certainly feels lightweight considering the subject.