Books in Brief: Notes from Africa

Notes from Africa, by H. S. Aynor (Praeger, 163 pp., $5.95).

I have read a good deal of material on contemporary Africa, but I have learned more from this slim little book than from most of the rest put together. Mr. Aynor, formerly Israeli ambassador to Senegal and The Gambia and charge d’affaires in Léopoldville, gives, in these notes from his diary, what is missing almost universally in the tendentious and/or scholarly books on Africa that pour from the presses: the feel of the continent in this second decade of European withdrawal. What he tells about is people in their actuality—not theories or ideological presentations or grandiose plans or sociological analyses. A truly useful book which is at the same time absorbing reading. F. s. meyer

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Notes from Africa, by H. S. Aynor (Praeger, 163 pp., $5.95).

I have read a good deal of material on contemporary Africa, but I have learned more from this slim little book than from most of the rest put together. Mr. Aynor, formerly Israeli ambassador to Senegal and The Gambia and charge d’affaires in Léopoldville, gives, in these notes from his diary, what is missing almost universally in the tendentious and/or scholarly books on Africa that pour from the presses: the feel of the continent in this second decade of European withdrawal. What he tells about is people in their actuality—not theories or ideological presentations or grandiose plans or sociological analyses. A truly useful book which is at the same time absorbing reading. F. s. meyer