I am paraphrasing, but near the start Gunther says this is not a book about his travels in Africa, but a description of the contemporary history and politics of Africa.

When I picked this up off my shelf, finally mentally prepared to tackle it, I imagined it to be a book of around 500 pages, judging by the spine thickness.Africans were free to become fully fledged Portuguese citizens, the catch of course being that very few met the qualifications.

The majority of this section is dominated by a lengthy interview with Albert Schweitzer - theologian, philosopher, missionary and physician (retired and aged 77 at the time) - who I admittedly have never heard of and was skimming over quickly.There is however a lot of his travel through the many countries, and for me these were some of the most interesting parts! 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. France seems to be a bit more reluctant to leave everything behind, is apparently working on assimilating its people and even has black representatives in the French Legislature in Paris! By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

hardback, thick octavo, upper hinge cracked but the text block stitching remains sound and the volume is free of marking. Basutoland, at the time a High Commission Territory and British protectorate, now Lesotho which concentrated mostly on ritual murders. Indeed the generation which knew and admired Rudyard Kipling succeeded in convincing itself that white imperialism in backward countries was a helping hand to the natives, drawing them out of darkness into light. This fantastic country is unique in that a small aristocracy of fifteen to twenty thousand, the descendants of the freed slaves who were sent from the United States in the 1820s, rules with an iron hand an unknown number of bush Negroes, perhaps a million and a half to two million in the hinterland.Lamb has nonetheless contributed to the relatively slim library of works that are essential reading for an understanding of modern-day Africa.