Merran McCulloch’s 1952 survey describes the Ovimbundu of Angola: their language, livelihoods, religion and social organization. F. K. Girling’s 1960 study portrays the Acholi of Uganda. In 1963 Tom Mboya, a leader of Kenya’s independence, wrote about African liberation and the challenges that follow it. Charles Perrings’s 1979 study follows African mineworkers in the copper regions of Central Africa, and a 1976 report by the International Commission of Jurists examines discrimination and repression under white-minority rule in Southern Rhodesia.
Merran McCulloch’s 1952 survey.
F. K. Girling’s 1960 study.
A stated 1963 first edition.
Charles Perrings’s 1979 study of Central Africa’s mineworkers.
The International Commission of Jurists’ 1976 report on Southern Rhodesia.
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