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Who's Who in Africa John Dickie and Allan Rake (African Development £9.00).
nbelievably, with this title, there is no name Index; there is no index at all. Contents are a list of countries, When the maddened researcher has rifled through forty-seven wheres to find the who he is rewarded by delightful vignettes in a delicate shade of Political pink. There are no terrorists in Africa; only national liberators and freedom fighters. Brevity is the soul of invidious Mission and nobody could guess that the United Nations has no legal competence nlInilaterally to end South Africa'scontrol of 4WA; or that the International Court gave a Mere advisory opinion on it. Curiously, Madagascar is included, but not Mauritius or the Seychelles. This may be a spatial decision; .15,11t more than one OAU spokesman claims ,Tese Islands and the Comoros, not to men
the Canaries as part of the African heri'age.
The question of Who is Who is always tItguable; yet for a title which includes usinessmen, the exclusion of Oppenheimer 4rld Anton Rupert in South Africa, not to lllention several Bantu business millionaires, Odd. On the other hand, churchmen were urriedly added, presumably for their known nn-European bias. Who is strictly Who and if You are dead you are out. That goes for some the best known Africans from Nkrumah Mboya to Amilcar Cabral. A few living ti,111!$ ht take umbrage at not being Who. Ex. esident Tsiranana of Madagascar for in4.ance, or Alan Savory in Rhodesia. Still, iron the known views of their sponsors, John cickie and Alan Rake provide a good dip-in `°1' students.
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