To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. 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. Africans were free to become fully fledged Portuguese citizens, the catch of course being that very few met the qualifications. Gunther wrote his classic memoir Death Be Not Proud, published in 1949, to commemorate the courage and spirit of this extraordinary boy.

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. On the British West Coast we have encountered the highest advance of colonial peoples toward effective selfgovernment. It is simplistic to say that in Africa there is always something afoot - but there are defiantly some interesting things happening at the time this book was published.Comparisons to Nazi Germany are almost always hackneyed and dishonest, but considering that Gunther wrote Inside Europe in 1936, I say he gets a pass in this case. LAMB'S perspective is a broad one, in that he essentially castigates Africa's elitist leadership, sympathizes with the ordinary people and seeks a solution to the continent's problems through the establishment of responsible leadership and a middle class to provide the backbone of a new society.

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. 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.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. Portugal considered its colonies to actually be part of Portugal which considered itself an Afro-European power, and the attitude towards intermarriage was much more open than it was in other European colonies. The important element in the book is the present political and social conditions in Africa and the outlook for the future which they imply. The Africans'' invites comparison with John Gunther's ''Inside Africa,'' published 30 years ago, when the countries covered in Mr.