Inside Africa

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White immigration is discouraged to prevent the racial tensions suffered by the British colonies, and white settlers get as much political rights as natives, which is to say none. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print.

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 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. 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. There is only so much justice nine-hundred pages can do, but it certainly beats Inside Asia, which while not a bad book certainly feels lightweight considering the subject. Lamb's book: With time, he concludes, Africa will find itself and assert itself; yet the evidence presented in his book - of personalized power at the top and popular lethargy in the nether regions of society - would seem to indicate that Africa's time, so far, has been as wasted as its vast agricultural and mineral resources.Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions - owners name to front end-paper; toning and slight spotting to page-ends but text and maps to endpapers bright and clear throughout. Tanganyika, starting with Kilimanjaro and Uganda make up the section on British East Africa - Tanganyika being a UN trust territory administered by the British, Uganda a protectorate.

The important element in the book is the present political and social conditions in Africa and the outlook for the future which they imply.People who he views as great men often turned out in reality to be brutal thugs and Africa fell far behind his predictions.

Gunther s 40,000 miles of often difficult travel in a continent about four times the size of the United States, he interviewed formally over 1500 people.The long section on South Africa is bogged down in politics and race, and individual biographies of prominent people, and for 30 or so pages my attention waned. There is however a lot of his travel through the many countries, and for me these were some of the most interesting parts!