Passage to Africa
D.A.N. Jones, 7 July 1983
Nigerian Kaleidoscope
by Rex Niven.
Hurst/Archon, 278 pp., £13.50, January 1983,0 905838 59 9 Show More
by Rex Niven.
Hurst/Archon, 278 pp., £13.50, January 1983,
Stepping-Stones
by Sylvia Leith-Ross, edited by Michael Crowder.
Peter Owen, 191 pp., £10.95, February 1983,0 7206 0600 4 Show More
by Sylvia Leith-Ross, edited by Michael Crowder.
Peter Owen, 191 pp., £10.95, February 1983,
Female and Male in West Africa
edited by Christine Oppong.
Allen and Unwin, 402 pp., £18.50, April 1983,0 04 301158 6 Show More
edited by Christine Oppong.
Allen and Unwin, 402 pp., £18.50, April 1983,
Memories of Our Recent Boom
by Kole Omotoso.
Longman, 232 pp., £1.50, May 1983,0 582 78572 3 Show More
by Kole Omotoso.
Longman, 232 pp., £1.50, May 1983,
“... stodgy ‘This England’ aspects. My other book, Nigeria: Portrait of a Colony by one C.R. Niven, was more straightforward and single-minded. The author published it in 1945 when he was 47, after 20 years’ service all over the huge unco-ordinated colony. The most striking photograph was his own study of two hefty Nigerians carrying his 1920 BSA over ... ”
