Kenya is the most disturbed of these countries because there the white settlers really came to stay and look over the best of the farming country. Sixty thousand Belgian whites cannot permanently deny political expression and civil rights to more than 12,000,000 blacks. You will get to feel the presence of men like Nasser and Haile Selassie, fully knowing that they're at the head of a new age. This territory comprised the current countries of Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Chad and Gabon, and operated from 1910 to 1958, so was nearing its conclusion when Gunther visited. The African people speak something like seven hundred main languages and innumerable tribal dialects.

This section goes deep into British governance, then the Mau-Mau, and covers off Zanzibar and relationship between the Sultan and the British Resident. S. for its middle of the road foreign policy regarding African nationalism, and refers to the Apartheid regime as "in some respects the ugliest government I have ever encountered in the free world. series, Inside Africa appears to be the largest, as one might expect when it comes to summarising this continent of variation. Imperialism and colonialism, if not highly respectable, were at least accepted as normal conditions at the turn of the century and for some time afterwards. In French Equatorial and in French West Africa relations between the natives and the French are more flexible and easy than elsewhere.

Gunther for the information that “when an elephant charges, he does not hold his trunk out and aloft, but carefully curls it up and tucks it against his chest; the trunk is delicate and too valuable to risk in combat. Until I read this book I did not know, for example, that the horn of a rhinoceros is made of hair, not ivory; or that hippos “have reddish sweat”; or that the roar of a lion “can be audible at a distance of six or seven miles. He and Frances Fineman, whom he married in 1927, had a daughter who died four months after her birth in 1929. 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. He is able to describe the unfamiliar by using familiar references and he beautifully describes details.

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. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. From the Sahara in the north, the rainforests of the Congo Basin in Central Africa, the Ethiopian highlands and other mountain ranges, the various rivers and lakes and the savanna of east and southern Africa. The Africans'' invites comparison with John Gunther's ''Inside Africa,'' published 30 years ago, when the countries covered in Mr.Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 952 pages; Description: xxiii, 952 p. 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. He says of the 44 countries or political sub-divisions of the time he visited 'most, including all those important', which is good enough for me. Morocco at least is far from ready for independence, but whether or not the French can persuade the Arabs and the Berbers in this vast territory to seek their future under French guidance and coöperation remains to be seen. Lamb has nonetheless contributed to the relatively slim library of works that are essential reading for an understanding of modern-day Africa.

French North Africa, including Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, is alive with nationalistic agitation and occasional violence.This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. While Gunther does go off on various tangents, hr does provide some basics for each - size relative to other countries and/or states of USA, the population (incl a split between Europeans and natives) and a description of the system of rule.

Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Missing DJ, light shelf and edge wear with corners lightly bumped, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block.It certainly helped backfill some colonial history I was a bit vague on, and some parts were fascinating. He gets to travel through the beginning of the Algerian Crisis, the Mau Mau Rebellion, and Apartheid, all related to the wider phenomenon of decolonization and the reduction of European influence throughout the continent. I started out writing a few notes about each country - they are below in a spoiler, as they quickly got out of hand, and I know my reviews are often painfully long under normal circumstances, without this effort! It was, however, when the Gunthers reached the Union of South Africa that they faced the most violent and difficult interracial situation on the whole continent.