REPORTS
| Published date | 01 October 1955 |
| Date | 01 October 1955 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1955.tb00117.x |
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sion,
and
the
judicial
attempt,
in West Africa, to remedy
the
lack of
any
period
of limitation in
customary
law by invoking
the
equitable doctrine of laches,
or " sleeping on one's rights."
Both
of these articles should be of considerable interest to readers of
the
Journal, especially since
the
future of
the
law in Africa,
and
the
role
it
is to
play
-as
amirror, or as an instrument, of radical social, political
and
economic
changes-are
now in debate. A.N.A.
OTHER
BOOKS
RECEIVED
Ethnographic Survey of Africa, edited by Professor Daryll Forde,
International
African
Institute,
London, 1955.
Three additions to this valuable series have recently been received. These
are
as follows
:-
North Eastern Africa
Part
I. Peoples of the Horn of Africa. Somali,
Afar
and Saho, by I. M.
Lewis;
21s.;
pp. 200.
Part
II.
The Galla of Ethiopia and the Kingdoms of Kafa and janero,
by
G. W. B.
Huntingford;
16s.;
pp. 156.
Southern Africa
Part
IV. The Shona and Ndebele of Southern Rhodesia, by Hilda Kuper,
A. J. B. Hughes,
and
J. van
Velsen;
ISs.;
pp. 131.
Like
the
previous volumes in
the
series these present comprehensive
and
clear
surveys of the ethnic composition, language, history
and
economies of
the
several tribes
under
review. The paragraphs dealing with social organisation
and
political
structure
and
the
sections on tribal law
and
land
holding
under
customary controls will be of great interest to readers of this Journal.
Each
Volume is illustrated by a comprehensive
map
of
the
tribal area concerned
and
there are subsidiary sketch maps
and
line drawings. Full bibliographies
are included.
REPORTS
Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Crofting Conditions. Cmd. 9091.
H.M.S.O., Edinburgh,
1954;
pp.
100;
3s. 6d.
In 1952 this
Journal
carried an article concerning land
and
fanning problems
in
the
crofting counties of Scotland.
That
article was inspired by
the
apparent
similarity of
the
problems of agrarian poverty in these
parts
of Scotland to
those in various
parts
of Africa.
It
was, moreover, occasioned by
the
appoint-
ment, in 1951, of a commission of enquiry into
the
Scottish crofting problem.
The report of this commission, which has worked under
the
chairmanship of
Dr. Murray-Taylor, has now been published. The
study
of
the
problem
and
the remedies which are proposed are of great interest to all those who are
concerned with agrarian improvement
and
reform in those a.reas of
the
tropical
and
semi-tropical
parts
of
the
globe now commonly descnbed by
the
rather
ugly
term"
undeveloped." The Crofting Act (1955), based largely on
this
report, has now been passed by Parliament
and
a new Crofting Commission
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