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effectively through the two Yaounde Conventions because of the maturity of both the Six and the Eighteen (as the African states were called). The expansion of the Community in 1973 led to the need for a new arrangement. The Lomg partnership emerged.
Recognizing the shortcomings of the EEC-African connection, Ms. Cosgrove concludes: "The EEC-ACP (Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific countries) partnership represents a symbol of hope in a divided world. It shows that Black and White can create co-operative frameworks and devise institutions within which they are able to work together on a basis of mutual respect."
The research on which the book is based is more than adequate. Original material including interviews, letters, newspapers, opinion journals, and appropriate secondary works have all be used. The only weakness in this regard is the relatively small number of books on the economies of the African states from the African perspective. Helpful aids such as appendices, an abbreviation list, a select bibliography, maps, graphs, tables, and an index are included. The only real criticism I have of the book is that it is awfully dull reading. The style can best be described as turgid, and the book is over-organized. The flaws are not fatal, however, because the book is essential to anyone wishing to have a clear picture of this aspect of international relations. Incidentially, a sequel to the book, on the Lomg II Convention, has been written by Ms. Twitchett and appears in the January-February, 1980, issue of Europe.
Pan-African Protest: West Africa and the Italo-Ethiopian crisis 1939-1941.
By S. K. B. Asante. London: Longmans, 1977. Review by Perry E. LeRoy, Morehead State University.
Professor S. K. B. Asante's main purpose was to show how the Italian invasion of Ethiopia both contributed to and speeded up the growth of West African national movements, especially in the ex-British colonies of Sierra Leone, Gambia, Nigeria and the Gold Coast. However, the style is often repetitious, with each chapter written as if it were a part of a dissertation. In addition, the author assumes that the reader would have a basic knowledge of African history. This book, therefore, should be recommended only for the advanced student who already knows something about West Africa.
For the Africanist, however, Dr. Asante has produced a thought-provoking
study, drawing on all forms of literature to reveal the attitudes and reactions of the emerging West African nationalists, distinct from the former elitist leaders. Much of the material, consequently, is propagandistic, but nonetheless, carefully judged as to effects and significance. Emotionalism is regarded as important since it causes the individual to respond to any attacks, such as that upon Ethiopia. In this regard, much is made of the racist issue, that is white versus black. Though recognizing that in earlier days the Ethiopians did not regard themselves as black, they now became the focal point of black accomplishments, of independence versus colonial subjugation.