Inside Africa

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Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Portugal, and the systems of governance, even the attitudes towards decolonization would vary. Owner inscription on front and back paste down pages and a little browning/toning to the end papers and page block edge.

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.The more whites in the colony, such as in Rhodesia or Kenya, the more resistance to independence, and arguably the bigger the tensions between Africans and Europeans. The British do not give as much economic opportunity in some realms as the Belgians and perhaps not as much political and racial equality as the French in Black Africa, but the average African in British territory has more copious access to the two things Africans need most — education and justice. 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.

He counts noses and he is constantly reiterating that a handful of whites cannot for long govern and decide the destinies of millions of blacks.He loves interviewing major figures himself, and in fact my major criticism of the book is that too many pages were spent detailing the time Gunther spent with Dr. There will be the typical geographic and anthropological color a reader of John Gunther is accustomed to. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards.