OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED
| Date | 01 October 1958 |
| Published date | 01 October 1958 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1958.tb01190.x |
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257
and
Achievement in Portuguese West
Routledge
&Kegan Paul,
London,
1957;
THE
WEALTH
OF
NIGERIA,
by G. Brian Stapleton. Oxford
Uuioersity
Press,
1958;
I6s; pp. 228.
An analysis of
the
problems
of
economic development in Nigeria
and
of possible lines
of solution.
The
natural
resources,
both
agricultural
and
industrial,
are
discussed,
and
the
national
income of
Nigeria
is
compared
with
that
of
other
countries.
The
book contains 13 statistical tables,
10
maps,
and
abibliography.
ANGOLA
IN
PERSPECTIVE.
Endeavour
Africa, by F. Clement C. Egerton.
3os; pp. 272, illustrated.
Acomprehensive, if relatively
short,
account
of the
country,
its history,
and
its
potential
wealth.
The
author
has
spent
many
years in Angola
and
has travelled widely
studying
the
country
and
its
administration.
AN
ATLAS
OF
AFRICAN
HISTORY,
by J. D. Fage. Edward Arnold
(Publishers)
Ltd.,
London,
1958; 30s; pp. 64.
Produced
particularly
for usc in schools
and
universities,
where
the
study
of African
history is growing steadily,
Dr.
Fage, who is Professor of
History
in the University
College
of
Ghana,
in collaboration
with
the
cartographer,
Maureen
Verity,
has
produced
a series of black
and
white
maps
which
with
great
clarity
and
grace
trace
the whole
range
of African history from
Roman
times to
1957.
A
LIFE
OF
SIR
SAMUEL
LEWIS,
by J. D. Hargreaves. Oxford
Unioersity
Press,
London,
1958; 6s; pp. 112.
In
the
West African History Series this is the
biography
of
Sir
Samuel
Lewis, who was
the
first African to be
Knighted.
He
was a leading citizen
of
Sierra
Leone in the
later
decades
of
the
nineteenth
century
and
was
three
times
mayor
of
Freetown. His
parents
were
Yorubas,
and
he was a
trained
lawyer
and
for
more
than
twenty
years a
leading
member
of
the Legislative Council.
He
also
acted
as
Queen's
Advocate
and
Chief.Justice.
LUDWIG
KRAPF:
Missionary
and
Explorer, by C. G. Richards. Macmillan &
Co.
Ltd.,
London,
1958, in association with the East African Literature Bureau;
2S
4d;
pp. 88.
This
series, Early Travellers ill East Africa, aims to
make
available in
an
abridged
and
edited
form the writings of the first explorers,
many
of whose records
are
of
great
interest
but
arc
not
now readily available.
Krapf,
a
German,
joined
the
Church
Missionary Society in
England,
and
set
out
for Africa as a missionary in 1837.
He
travelled in Abyssinia
and
Zanzibar
and
later
throughout
East
Africa
until
1855,
when
he was eventually forced for a
time
to leave
owing to
ill
health.
He
returned,
however, for the last years of his life
and
founded
aMethodist Mission Station.
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