Ethnic problems of the tropical Africa, can they be solved?

This book on the ethnic problems of Tropical Africa has the distinction of being the first monograph in Marxist African studies to deal with the broad round of these matters in this region of Africa. In her analysis the author has drawn on extensive, varied source materials and literature in various languages as well as on her own personal observations in seventeen African countries. The value of this book is that such a study helps to bring out and differentiate the general and the specific in the complex ethnic evolution of Tropical Africa, and to demonstrate the applicability in African conditions of the general laws and patterns of social and ethnic development. Dr Ismagilova discusses the role of the ethnic factor in contemporary conditions in Tropical Africa and its effect on political life and the endeavours of governments to implement social and economic measures. Her book reveals the social roots and nature of the ethnic contradictions and antagonisms in this area of the world, discusses the principles set out in African government and party programmes for dealing with the national question, and describes the steps taken by a number of governments in this respect.