AFRICAN TERRITORIES
INTRODUCING EAST AFRICA, by Mona oP pnceyges a Faber and. Faber. English price, te MBS. MACMILLAN’S book is a breathless enumeration of facts — relevant and otherwise — about the British East African territories of’ Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika. The only visible order in the book is that imposed by the chronology of the author’s travels, and the reader must needs be agile to follow her as she leaps from the advantages of contour plough-
ing in the Kigezi district to the plumbing arrangements of the hotel at Kabale. Such comment as there is shows little insight. We are told, for instance, that the Kikuyu "seem to resemble the Irish in being easily inflamed with political or religious fervour, but strangely content with very low standards of personal living." The general reader, for whom the book is intended, may well. find valuable information in this introduction, but the labour involved in the search ‘should prove a sufficient deterrent for most. There is a topographical map-where | one of soils and vegetation would have | been more useful-and an index ade- |
quate tor the book,
A. S.
F.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 13
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185AFRICAN TERRITORIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 13
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