Peter C. W. Gutkind

Tradition, Migration, Urbanization, Modernity, and Unemployment in Africa: The Roots of Instability

I recently had occasion to discuss the purpose and content of the now famous Arusha Declaration 1 with a colleague just arrived from Africa whose scholarship and intellectual creativity I greatly appreciate. He expressed the view that he considered the declaration to be a most interesting document because it contained a dazzling assemblage of ideas designed to come to grips with a wide range of economic, political, social and ideational problems which have bugged Africa not only since the day the Gold Coast became Ghana, but since the days when colonialism became master of the continent. There are many features in this

The Crisis and Challenge of African Development

Preface Part One European Colonialism and Postcolonial Crises in Africa by David B. Abernethy The Present and Future of the African State in an Age of Adversity by Harvey Glickman The Crisis of African Development and the Lagos Plan of Action by Vremudia P. Diejomaoha African Capitalism and African Economic Performance by Sayre P. Schatz Contemporary Policy Responses to Economic Decline in Africa by Ravi Gulhati and Satya Yalamanchili Images and Realities of Responsibility toward Africa by Princeton Lyman Part Two Overburdened Government and Underfed Populace: The Role of Food Subsidies in Africas Economic Crisis by Raymond F. Hopkins Institutionalizing Rural Development: Lessons from Evaluation by Ruth S. Morgenthau Getting Women on the African Development Agenda by Barbara Lewis Development and Deviance: A Situational Perspective on African Governmental Corruption by Robert Washington Accepting the Challenge of the Crisis of Development in Africa: Conclusions and Implications by Harvey Glickman

African labor history

The making of the railways, the growth of African trade unionism, the reaction of employers, and strikes against the multinationals are the kind of topics in African history addressed by this collection of essays.

J. C. Caldwell, African Rural-Urban Migration: The Movement to Ghana's Towns. New York, Columbia University Press, 1969, 90 tables, 257pp. No price given

Nobody knows exactly how many millions of Africans, mostly young and unmarried, are constantly on the move between rural and urban areas. An educated guess might be thirty million. Migration patterns are changing from circular migration to translocation. While Africa continues to be the least urbanized of the continents, if rather meaningless and socially static statistical measures are applied, a good deal of recent data firmly suggests that African towns are leaping ahead in their annual growth rate. Unfortunately the larger towns are getting larger and the small

Book Reviews : P. D. Devanandan and M. M. Thomas, The Changing Pattern of Family in India, The Christian Institute (for the Study of Religion and Society), Bangalore, 1960

a rapidly changing society. Thirdly, Ganda society is abstracted by the authors from the social milieu of reality, in which the Ganda Kingdom includes many non-Ganda areas and in which many labour migrants live especially in the urban centres. This abstracted society is then analysed at the macro-level by all the writers except Southall. Southall’s analysis of leadership at the village level is, however only a glimpse, and no connection is made between the two levels of analysis at all. We get a general picture of the national level of Ganda politics, with snapshots of the difficulties encountered by the lower chiefs in the villages. If both Fallers and Richards had related their analysis to the micro-level and told us even briefly, how social mobility and political movements work at the village level, the value of the book would have been greatly enhanced. The King’s Men, in spite of the above criticisms, is a very valuable book and