In 1942, as a Staff Officer in G2, he was assigned to the section covering the campaign in North Africa, and after the successful termination of that operation he teas sent to Dakar as our Military Observer in French West Africa. Sixty thousand Belgian whites cannot permanently deny political expression and civil rights to more than 12,000,000 blacks. To some radical Africans, that solution will clearly be a contentious point, but ''The Africans'' will undoubtedly provoke other debates as well.

ANYONE who reads John Gunther’s Inside Africa, or even reads in it, must be conscious that he is dealing with a journalistic tour de force of extraordinary dimensions. The important element in the book is the present political and social conditions in Africa and the outlook for the future which they imply. A visit to all 44 African countries, including Haile Selassie's Ethiopia, Albert Schweitzer, Tubman of Liberia, Nkrumah, and the Mau Mau of Kenya. Ghana gets an indulgent interview with the (black) Prime Minister, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, then a quick side trip to Togoland - British Togoland, which was joined to Gold Coast and is now part of Ghana, and French Togoland - now Togo.French North Africa, including Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, is alive with nationalistic agitation and occasional violence. To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies.

The present government is “grounded in part at least on three of the most unpleasant, of human characteristics — fear, bigotry, and intolerance. xii, 960pp, line maps in text, section of statistical charts, col'd maps at endpapers, brown cloth with black title panel lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, coloured lettered dustwrapper, an account of the 44 countries or political sub-divisions of contemporary Africa, based mainly on a journey undertaken 1952-3 covering 40,000 miles, a little bumped at lower cnrs. On the British West Coast we have encountered the highest advance of colonial peoples toward effective selfgovernment. There will be the typical geographic and anthropological color a reader of John Gunther is accustomed to.

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! Great Britain at this point seemed to realize that colonialism was over, yet at this point they seemed to simply be trying to postpone the end indefinitely. 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. Kenya, held up in ''The Africans'' as a model, has since transformed itself into a one-party state, and its stable, peaceable image was irretrievably lost last August in an attempted coup. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper.

One critic noted that it was Gunther's special gift to "unite the best qualities of the newspaperman and the historian. Only too patently 11,750 white men [as in Nigeria] cannot keep 30,000,000 black men from becoming free, once the 30,000,000 black men decide that they want to become free. Morocco at least is far from ready for independence, but whether or not the French can persuade the Arabs and the Berbers in this vast territory to seek their future under French guidance and coöperation remains to be seen.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. Egypt in 1952 declared itself a republic, freeing itself from British control of the Suez Canal, and the Naguib/Nasser period had commenced. In French Equatorial and in French West Africa relations between the natives and the French are more flexible and easy than elsewhere. Nigeria gets a long mention - held up as the most advanced and successful British protectorate, already partly self-ruled and moving towards full independence by 1960.

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. He doesn't like describing places that he hasn't visited and goes to the extent of apparently being the the first non-Portuguese to ever ask the government to visit the Fort of St. The Africans'' invites comparison with John Gunther's ''Inside Africa,'' published 30 years ago, when the countries covered in Mr. It was, however, when the Gunthers reached the Union of South Africa that they faced the most violent and difficult interracial situation on the whole continent. He and Frances Fineman, whom he married in 1927, had a daughter who died four months after her birth in 1929.John Gunther was one of the best known and most admired journalists of his day, and his series of "Inside" books, starting with Inside Europe in 1936, were immensely popular profiles of the major world powers. Please list any fees and grants from, employment by, consultancy for, shared ownership in or any close relationship with, at any time over the preceding 36 months, any organisation whose interests may be affected by the publication of the response. While publicly a bon vivant and modest celebrity, Gunther in his private life suffered disappointment and tragedy.