Roland Young

Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston

African studies at Northwestern University will enter a new phase of their history in September 1964, when Professor Gwendolen M. Carter takes up her post as director of the Program and Herskovits Professor of African Studies. The new appointment coincides with an expanding intellectual involvement of the faculty with the developing countries of the world, which have been somewhat neglected by scholarship, and the future goals of the Program are closely related to this wider academic development. First, however, a note on the background.

D. ANTHONY Low and R. CRANFORD PRATT. Buganda and British Overrule 1900-1955. Pp. xi, 373. New York: Oxford University Press on behalf of East African Institute of Social Research, 1960.

ness made all the more poignant since industry, enterprise, and skill have enabled the immigrants to build up a standard of living far ahead of that prevailing in most parts of their original homeland. The first Indians to arrive in Natal were indentured laborers, who had pledged their labor for a period of three to five years, after which they were free either to stay in Natal or to return to India. Most of