Inside Africa

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Tacked on the end of the Belgian Congo section was a short explanation of the Forest People - or Pygmies, and a small section on Ruanda-Urundi (now Rwanda and Burundi. FWA is made up of Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Haute Volta (French Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger. It is with this experience that he seeks to evaluate John Gunther’s most ambitious survey, Inside Africa. Hennessy in approximately these words, “Take up the White Man’s burden and hand it to the coons,”that I began to wonder. Egypt in 1952 declared itself a republic, freeing itself from British control of the Suez Canal, and the Naguib/Nasser period had commenced.In Nigeria the passion for independence is probably farther advanced and more intelligently advocated than in any other British African colony.

The African people speak something like seven hundred main languages and innumerable tribal dialects. Gunther’s reporting without following in his footsteps — which God forbid — it is satisfactory to me to testify to his thoroughly comprehensive treatment of Liberia and his proper, if uninspired, account of French West Africa. The Africans'' invites comparison with John Gunther's ''Inside Africa,'' published 30 years ago, when the countries covered in Mr. 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.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. 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.

The Belgian Congo also had about another 5 years before independence was achieved for Congo and Congo Crisis began, followed by more torrid ruling as the Democratic Republic of Congo, then Zaire, then back to Congo DR.A chapter on gold and diamonds completed the South Africa section with more vigour, and then a short chapter on 'German' South-West Africa, which is now Namibia. I am paraphrasing, but near the start Gunther says this is not a book about his travels in Africa, but a description of the contemporary history and politics of Africa. Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work. The Union contains the largest white population of any state in Africa; it is enormously wealthy, and far more advanced in material ways than any other region; but white and black meet there head on, and what the ultimate result will be, no one can say.

e., suppression of four-fifths of the people of the country) and it is in some respects the ugliest government I have ever encountered in the free world.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.