Abstract

Will Africa Be Next?

This article presents the author's views on several books related to the history of Africa. The books are devoted to Belgian and Portuguese and French territories, and to British West Africa. Historian John Cookson quite ignores French and British West Africa; and only 25 pages out of the 187 in the small volume are given over to the Congo, French Equatorial Africa, and West Africa, the important Portuguese territories of Angola and Mozambique being completely ignored. Mr. Cookson's book is of the same general type, though it shows neither the discipline in approach nor the ability in writing that mark historian Alexander Campbell's work. His attitude toward African problems is not uninteresting; it may be compared to that held by the liberal settler of East Africa.