Abstract
THE authors of the three books under notice approach their subjects from three entirely different points of view. Mr. Ajisafe is a Yoruba native who puts forward a treatise upon the laws and customs of his own people: Canon Roscoe and Mr. Norden write as foreigners visiting Africa, but, again, their points of view differ. Canon Roscoe is a trained ethnologist; his expedition was organised for the purpose of obtaining information useful to anthropological science. Mr. Norden writes as a tourist, relating the experiences of a pleasure trip in Kenya and Uganda.
(1) The Laws and Customs of the Yoruba People.
By A. K. Ajisafe. Pp. vi + 97. (London: G. Routledge and Sons, Ltd.; Lagos: C.M.S. Bookshop, 1924.) 3s. 6d. net.
(2) The Bagesu and Other Tribes of the Uganda Protectorate: the Third Part of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa.
By the Rev. Canon John Roscoe. Pp. xiv + 205 + 32 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1924.) 20s. net.
(3) White and Black in East Africa: a Record of Travel and Observation in two African Crown Colonies.
By Hermann Norden. Pp. 304 + 18 plates. (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1924.) 15s. net.
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CLARKE, L. Laws and Customs in Central Africa. Nature 114, 745–746 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114745a0
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