Word: gunthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Albert Schweitzer runs his hospital. The sanitary arrangements were "picturesque," but the picture Gunther leaves of the grand old doctor seizing a spade to encourage his leper workmen ("Allez-vous OPP, allez-vous OPP-upp-OPP . . .") stands out like a flame in the forest...
...Hope. Inevitably, Gunther confronts the tragic question of South Africa...
...there a solution to the South African dilemma? Gunther saw none, but he found hope elsewhere on the troubled continent-notably in British West Africa, where the hustling rival colonies of Gold Coast and Nigeria are driving hard toward independence. In Accra, the Gold Coast capital, he attended a debate in the Legislative Assembly and found it "far above the usual level of the House of Representatives." Gunther considers that the British rule Africa best. Though on the whole they provide jess economic opportunity than the Belgians, less racial equality than the French, they give the African "copious access...
Magic & Machinery. Gunther takes it for granted that Africans are potentially capable of self-government. Stuart Cloete is less optimistic. African Giant shows that Africa's problem is too complex for the simple solution of being for black freedom and against white rule. Cloete stresses the most widely overlooked fact about modern Africa-its emergence from Stone Age savagery straight into Atomic Age civilization. His book-more evocatively written but less well organized than Gunther's-shows the incongruous patterns of overlapping magic and machinery, primitiveness and progress...
Following Gunther, Cloete flew to West Africa. But where Gunther highlights its progress, Cloete probes deeper and finds that everywhere the savage past impinges on the present. Between 1945 and 1948, Nigerian leopard-men clawed 196 people to death in a single district. White officials recently arrived at a chieftain's funeral to find the coffin unscrewed and the African guests engaged in eating the corpse (necrophagy is still common in Africa...