10 MAY 1986, page 37

Refusing To Play The White Man

Mark Amory BWANA STOKESI AND HIS AFRICAN CONQUESTS by Nicholas Harman Jonathan Cape, £12.95 I n 1886, when the 14 important countries of the world, all white, decided at the......

The Clash Of Empires

Brian Martin AN INSULAR POSSESSION by Timothy Mo Chatto, £9.95 A first glance, it might appear that this novel has been structured by a booty- hunter on the American market: it......