Bibliographie ethnographique de l'Afrique sud-saharienne 1969 by Nicole DelormeReview by: Jean-Claude MullerCanadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 8, No. 2(1974), pp. 424-425Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of the Canadian Association of African StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/483781 .

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424 CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES

one yearning to become a revolutionary. As such it offers insight into the complexities of the liberation struggle itself - in the striving for mass rather than elite values, in the reassess- ment of the mixed alien and indigenous culture, in the desire to become involved in the problems of people. This story allows for first-hand understanding of the Angolan struggle and thus nicely supplements the few existing accounts of reporters and scholars who have been able to put their impressions into writing.

Ronald H. CHILCOTE

University of California, Riverside

Nicole DELORME, L'Association des btats africains et malgache a la Communaute"

economique europeenne, Librairie g6- ndrale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, Paris, 1972, 374p.

The title page carries a curious disclaimer: "This work was presented initially as a doctoral thesis... before the publication of the book by Daniel Vignes which bears the same title." Its organization is teutonic: divisions into parts, titles, subtitles, chapters, sections and paragraphs. However, these enable the reader to substitute the table of contents for a rather limited index.

Delorme's work must be compared to the several other works on hand, covering an identical subject. In addition to Vignes, L'Association des btats africains et malgache a" la C.E.E. (Librairie Armand Colin, Paris: 1970), two earlier and one later work, must be noted: a brief monograph (67p.) by Arnold Rivkin, Africa and the European Common Market. A Perspective, revised 2nd edition (University of Denver: 1966), P. N. C. Okigbo, Africa and the Common Market (Longman's, Green and Co., London: 1967) and the very valuable book by I. William Zartman, The Politics of Trade Negotiations Between Africa and the European Economic Community (Princeton University Press: 1971).

Delorme's book, as volume 16, forms part of the "Bibliotheque africaine et malgache," a collection of scholarly works ranging from the general "The African State" to the confined

"Separation of Church and State in Madagascar (1861-1968)."

Its basic purpose is to analyze the con- stituent texts on which the relationship between the ordinary and associated members of the EEC is based. This annotated rendition is most useful as an objective exercise. However, the reader will search in vain for the views and attitudes of the author. The preface by Dean C. A. Calliard of the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences of Paris poses the basic question in a gallic-rhetorical form: "Is one in the presence of a neo-imperialistic formula, registering, as some denounce it, as a 'pillage of the Third World'? Is one in the presence, on the contrary, of a privileged system sustaining economic and financial aid which one does not encounter in the accords of the association with other African states, like the Arusha Declara- tion, or the preceding accord with Nigeria which the Biafra episode had to immobilize? The readers will judge and choose..."

Edgar S. EFRAT

Department of Political Science, University of Victoria U.K.

Bibliographie ethnographique de I'Afrique sud-saharienne 1969, Musee royal de

l'Afrique centrale, Terveuren, Belgique, 1973, xxxii + 436p.

Cet ouvrage comprend quelque 3 500 fiches bibliographiques d'articles de revue ou de monographies interessant l'Afrique au sud du Sahara - a l'exclusion de l'Lthiopie et de la Corne de l'Afrique - parus en 1969. Les fiches, toutes en franqais, comportent un resume suc- cinct du contenu de l'article ou de l'ouvrage; l'auteur de cette courte note de lecture en a compare certains avec les articles recenses et les a trouves tres bien faits.

Un index tribal, geographique, d'auteur, ainsi que des principaux mots cles en anthropologie culturelle et sociale, en ethnologie, en ethnohistoire, en histoire coloniale, en linguistique, en geographie humaine, en sociologie ainsi qu'en archdologie - a partir de l'age recent de la pierre - permet de manier facilement cet utile instrument de r'ference.

Ce volume est le dixieme d'une sdrie an-

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LIVRES / BOOKS 425

nuelle; il peut etre aussi command6 dans une autre edition, imprimee sur bristol au recto seulement afin de se constituer un fichier alphabetique que l'on peut par la suite 6largir en un fichier analytique par duplication des fiches.

Jean-Claude MULLER

Ddepartement d'anthropologie, Universite' de Montrial

Ali A. MAZRUI and Hasu H. PATEL (Eds), Africa in World Affairs: The Next Thirty Years, The Third Press, New York, 1973, xii + 258p.

Historians should not really review books based on the doctrines of futurology. The disciplines are incompatible. But this is not the reason for the sourness of this review. It is hard to understand why this book was ever published. Ali Mazrui is sometimes criticized for the quantity and thinness of his work a thinness disguised by the brilliance of his language. This book will only confirm some critics in an unfortunate prejudice.

The book is a collection of articles which evolved from a conference in December 1969 at Makerere sponsored by the World Order Models Project. Professor Mazrui attempts in his introduction to put them into a category of planning for the future. This would be a sensible and rational undertaking and would not need the gobbledy-gook of futurology to justify it. Alas the papers do not live up to the introduc- tion, in part because they have little relation to each other. In addition some have dated rather badly since much has happened since 1969, not all of it foreseen by the futurologists at Makerere. The most important undoubtedly is the shift of power and wealth to the Arab world. Will the result be a series of Arab client states in Africa ? Will the pattern of aid shift ? None of this was visible in 1969 to the economists participating in the seminar although the signs of a fuel crisis were known to a few in North America and Europe at that time.

Some of the other articles have dated to a greater or less degree. I have no doubt that T. M. Shaw would write somewhat differently on South Africa today and Apolo Robin Nsibambi might well think that some of his cautions fears

about East African integration are now more likely to be realized. Both of these are indeed reasonable papers but since they are as much reports on the present as predictions for the future, the delay of four years in publishing them has certainly been a disservice to the authors.

But in general the quality of the articles is low. Ali Mazrui tells us the obvious, namely that African states wish the maximum political independence combined with the maximum foreign financial assistance. He does not really explain how this remarkable phenomenon would happen. At least he writes with elegance. Others prefer the solemn but resoundingly obvious. D. B. Patel writes apropos of mass communication: "Whether a message is 'effec- tive' (that is, achieves what it sets out to inform, educate, entertain, etc.) is often difficult to assess mainly because communication in such a complex social process." Or "Economic development can be described, in the simplest terms, as the process of raising per capita productivity or real per capita income over a given period of time": His essay is largely composed of such safe aphorisms. Others have buried their thought in jargon or a mass of subheadings. Locksley G. E. Edmundson on "Africa and the Diaspora" invented more subheadings for his article than some authors have chapters in their books. In other control without any real analysis of the forces who oppose it and the reason for this opposition.

All in all this book is a disaster.

Donald C. SAVAGE

Canadian Association of University Teachers

Basil DAVIDSON, Black Star A View of the Life and Times of Kwame Nkrumah, London: Allen Lane, 1973.

Kwame Nkrumah died in 1972, after six years of exile in Conakry, a man as much subjected to extremes of adulation and vilification in exile as he had been during his years of active leadership in Ghana. Ghana has since pursued a tortuous path with a rapid succession of civilian and military regimes, each totally unable to set in motion the thorough-going processes of transformation needed to mobilize for sustained development. A critical re-assessment

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