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Forward

It is with pleasure that I respond to the Editor's invitation to write the foreword to this, the nineteenth, number of NADA.

In the first place I would like to offer my congratulations to the Editor (Mr. N. H. D. Spicer) on the successful outcome of his determination to ensure publication of the annual notwithstanding the peculiar and manifold difficulties of the times.

Since its inception, NADA has appeared regularly to help to stimulate interest in the customs and ways of the Bantu people, and it would have been a sad disappointment to its many readers had NADA failed to appear in 1942.

An article under a certain nom de plume, or over wellremembered initials, glimpsed in turning over the pages of the earlier numbers, brings back memories of contributors who, alas, will write no more, but who, in recording their experiences in NADA, have left to posterity a wealth of information concerning the history and customs of the Native people amongst whom they lived and worked, and we who follow may count ourselves fortunate that this priceless heritage has been saved to us through the medium of NADA.

NADA's contribution towards the promotion of race relations is so generally known and appreciated as to render any words of mine superfluous, but I venture to suggest that the continuance of satisfactory relations in the face of changes of so fundamental a char acter as those to which the Bantu must "willy nilly" be subjected, now that his feet have been firmly set forth on the ladder of progress, will not be possible without an even better understanding of his history and associations, and it is in this direction that NADA can continue to assist by imparting the requiste knowledge in an easily digestible form.

The conception of the interdependency of the two races is very apt aptly expressed by H. P. Junod in his recent book "Bantu Heritage":

"As Dr. Aggrey put it, the piano has black as well as white keys. Though Chopin has written a study on the black keys only, the usual expression of musical inspiration needs both black and white keys. This does not imply that the white keys must become black or vice versa. On the contrary, both must harmonise.

"That is why the understanding of the Bantu heritage is so important to us all.''

In conclusion, I commend the new issue of NADA to all interested in Native administration and welfare, and in particular to those of the general public who have not previously made its acquaintance.

H.H.D Simmonds, Chief Native commissioner Salisbury, 10th September 1941 Editorial