French North Africa, including Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, is alive with nationalistic agitation and occasional violence. Very good book (clean, crisp interior, tight binding, exterior covers shows some wear in upper right corner and to extremities) in a good dust jacket (tears, creases, rubbing, and losses overall). The racial tensions which exist in one section are almost wholly different from those prevailing in another.

One critic noted that it was Gunther's special gift to "unite the best qualities of the newspaperman and the historian. From the viewpoint of a fellow correspondent, ''The Africans'' is highly readable, uncluttered by statistics and marked by many an insight for the newcomer and more seasoned hand alike. To explore the gigantic and diverse continent of Africa and to study the inside workings and problems of its vast populations is an appalling undertaking.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. At this time, Morocco consisted of the main body of land Morocco administered by the French; Spanish Morocco; the Tangier International Zone. Kenya is the most disturbed of these countries because there the white settlers really came to stay and look over the best of the farming country.

Of course he does differentiate carefully between the degrees of advancement of indigenous populations, and I think that on the whole his comments and conclusions are eminently fair. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine, end paper maps. During that time he logged 300,000 miles through 48 African countries, covered wars and coups and managed to preserve some hope.FWA is made up of Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Haute Volta (French Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger.

There is however a lot of his travel through the many countries, and for me these were some of the most interesting parts! Gunther has interesting chapters on Portuguese Africa, on Rhodesia and Nyasaland, on the Belgian Congo, on British A Vest Africa with principal reference to Nigeria and the Gold Coast. Gunther feels that the French are doing perhaps better work in black Africa than along the Mediterranean basin.The present government is “grounded in part at least on three of the most unpleasant, of human characteristics — fear, bigotry, and intolerance. WITH ''The Africans'' David Lamb has produced a timely and valuable work that cuts through many of the distorted images propagated by Africans themselves, by the continent's apologists and by its detractors.