20 OCTOBER 1979, page 22

Africa Hands

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Tales from the Dark Continent Ed. Charles Allen (Deutsch/BBC £6 1 95) Some friends of mine recently celebrated the arrival of a new baby; the father,......

Sleepwalking

Peter Ackroyd The White Album Joan Didion (Weidenfeld £5.95) During the late Sixties, a phenomenon arose in the Western media; it became known as 'student radicalism'.......