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"African Dilemma"

By FRANK MELLAND and CULLEN YOUNG (published by the United Society for Christian Literature, 1937).

This book is doubtless already familiar to the majority of our readers, but for the benefit of those who have not had the good fortune to come across it, this note is published.

"African Dilemma" is the outcome of collaboration by two writers, each of whom may justly be regarded as an authority in his own sphere of work. The authors discuss some of the many difficulties of administration and errors of judgment which must inevitably arise when African races come first under European control. The chapters on witchcraft and our attitude towards this nationwide feature of African life provide food for deepest thought.

Have we set out on the right path, or the best path, by which to reach the goal of solution to the various native problems? If we have not, surely we should abandon these false trails (even though for a while we grope on the trackless wastes of jungle or desert) to discover the right road?

Mr. F. A. Stuart°, many years ago and for a brief space a member of the Native Department of Southern Rhodesia, and until a short time ago Chief Inspector of Native Areas, Natal and Zululand in the Native Affairs Department of the Union of South Africa, wrote recently to the Editor of NADA:

'African Dilemma' is so full of meat that one cannot assimilate everything at a single 'meal.'

"One should 'chew the cud' after each chapter to get the best out of it.

"I am in agreement with the authors in 90 per cent, of what they say, particularly with the views expressed in Chapter IX (English Law and the Native), which, boiled down, is in my opinion the crux of the whole position.

"The arguments are so sound fundamentally and follow so logically on years of administrative experience which thinking Native Commissioners have had with the Natives that it is just this sort of book that should be included in the curriculum of every schoolincluding the Universities in British Africa.

'Without some such grounding in our more receptive years we will go floundering on and perhaps achieve in two centuries what might otherwise he brought about in 50 years or less.

"The Zulus, as perhaps you know, have a fine proverb'Inyati ibuzwa kwaba pambili' (the whereabouts of the buffalo is enquired of from those in the van of the chase), or, freely translatedGet your information from the proper sources.'

"'African Dilemma because the information it gives is based on actual knowledgeis a striking instance of the wisdom underlying the proverb."

Such opinions and such advice as that which is offered in the fourth paragraph, coming as they do from a man of Mr. Stuart's reputation and experience, should not fail to awaken, in students and legislators alike, deeper thought for the book and its subjects.

N. H. D. S.

Brother of the late Mr. C. T. 5tuart, Native Commissioner in the Native Affairs Department of Southern Rhodesia.