OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
| Published date | 01 October 1959 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1959.tb00148.x |
| Date | 01 October 1959 |
BOOK
REVIEWS
OTHER
PUBLICA
TIONS
RECEIVED
THE
AFRICA
OF
TODAY
AND
TOMORROW:
AContinent on the Move. The Royal
African Society; 1959;
pp.
120.
The
texts of talks given by six speakers
at
atwo-day course held by the Society in
January
1959, embracing general surveys of political
and
economic developments
throughout
the continent.
Four
of the talks covered West Africa,
The
Federation
of
Rhodesia
and
Nyasaland, East Africa
and
South Africa respectively.
INTERNATIONAL
SURVEY
OF
PROGRAMMES
OF
SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT:
United
Nations; 1959; 14s;
pp.
190.
Asequel to
the
first
International
Survey published in 1955, this Survey covers
not
only social development in the conventional sense
but
also recent trends in community
development
and
problems of urbanization. It provides valuable information on
situations
and
methods outside Africa, especially in Latin America
and
India.
Both
ends
and
means
are
often remarkably similar to those of the African territories; e.g.
the urge to decentralization
and
the stimulation of local initiative
are
by no means
confined to British territories.
DROIT
D'OUTRE-MER;
by P. F. Gondiec. Editions Mont
Chrestien,
Paris; 1959.
A useful survey of French colonial history
and
institutions.
THE
MUGWE:
A
FAILING
PROPHET,
by B. Bernadi. Published for the
Inter-
national African Institute by Oxford University Press; 1959; 25s;
pp.
iv +
21
I.
A
study
of the
ritual
office of the Mugwe, which has been
of
considerable social
significance amongst the
Meru
of Kenya.
The
author,
a
Roman
Catholic missionary,
examines the relationship of the Mugwe to the cultural system of the Meru,
and
the
claims
made
for it by the latter,
and
he makes comparisons with the ritual dignitaries
of
other
East
African peoples. Professor Daryll Forde contributes aforeword.
PORTUGUESE
AFRICA,
by
James
Duffy. Harvard University Press; London:
Oxford University Press; 1959; 38s; pp. vi +389.
Ahistory
of
Angola
and
Mocarnbique from 1500 to the present, with a
critique
of
Portuguese policy
and
achievement in these regions.
The
author
is
an
associate professor
at Brandeis University.
THE
STORY
OF
BRITISH
DEMOCRACY,
by P. G. Lloyd. Macmillan; in association
with The East African Literature Bureau; 1959; pp. vi +202; 5s.
There
is
an
insatiable
demand
in Africa for books in English, including works on
Western political
and
social institutions. Unfortunately only a small
proportion
of those
presently available meet the need of the majority of African readers for descriptive
Publications which
are
clearly
and
simply written,
accurate
and
well-informed, without
being didactic or dull. Books like this one
are
therefore to be welcomed: within its
small compass it manages to provide acomprehensive
account
not only
of
British
parliamentary
government
and
of the
~ommonwealth,
but
of
the British people; their
pursuits, upbringing, arts
and
way. of
~lfe
(do,wn
t~
the
way
they spend their
Sunday
afternoons).
The
book (perhaps like Its subject)
IS
workmanlike
rather
than
lively.
As
the
publishers claim, it should provide students with a good
start
in a difficult subject.
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