Summing Up Africa

Inside Africa, by John Gunther. 952 pp. New York: Harper and Brothers. $6.00

The Bolshevization of the Eurasian heartland upon whose resources and markets the overpopulated and industrialized West in large measure depended, has catapulted Africa into the limelight. Just yesterday this continent of kaleidoscopic complexity was little considered by the West except as a reservoir of cheap primary produce and cheap expendable labor. On the maps of 1900 it was largely stamped “Unexplored” and, save for its Mediterranean littoral, dismissed as a curious cannibals’ abode where intrepid missionaries sought souls at their peril.

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George S. Schuyler

Inside Africa, by John Gunther. 952 pp. New York: Harper and Brothers. $6.00

The Bolshevization of the Eurasian heartland upon whose resources and markets the overpopulated and industrialized West in large measure depended, has catapulted Africa into the limelight. Just yesterday this continent of kaleidoscopic complexity was little considered by the West except as a reservoir of cheap primary produce and cheap expendable labor. On the maps of 1900 it was largely stamped “Unexplored” and, save for its Mediterranean littoral, dismissed as a curious cannibals’ abode where intrepid missionaries sought souls at their peril.