PROBLEMS OF AFRICA

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3717, 2 November 1926, Page 7

PROBLEMS OF AFRICA

I WORK CF IKE MISSIONS In Belgium I his month n missionary conference will meet representing tho missions working in different parts of Africa. A special number ol' the ‘ International Review of -Missions ' for July embodies a series of articles introducing the problems under discussion. Since the days of Livingstone and Mackenzie the missions of Africa have taken a very active part in ail social and political activities affecting the welfare of the native, so that this African number is a useful sidelight on the chief concerns of the many Governments which rule Africa. M. Elie Allegrei writes of French Morocco. The French have never raised the color question at all, he says, and cheerfully serve under natives of ability in the army or Government service. Ife claims a strong strain of idealism for French administration, which at present is actively concerned with education and public health. IVJ. Henri A net writes from the Belgian standpoint, emphasising the attempts made to arrest the depopulation of Central Africa. Two other articles, one by Mr T. IE OJdham on ‘Health and .Population,’ another by Dr Eerrigo on the ‘Ministry of Health and Welfare Work.’ deal with aspects of the spread of this kind of enlightenment through the continent. Three articles written from three different standpoints, review the question of the relation of black to white in South Africa. The white race in that part of the continent is determined to maintain its pre-eminence. Most white people occupy positions of management and supervision, but some have not the capacity for thorn. in order to protect these “poor white' from Indian and native competition, recently introduced legislation restricts certain trades and occupations to the whites. in the provinces of South Africa there are wide differences ot policy towards the natives. Cape Colony grants i hem the full franchise, while there are repressive tendencies in the Transvaal. In Natal the whites arc anxious to prevent the Indians entering into certain trades, and they propose jo restrict Indian, ownership ol la ml to certain regions. Tins series of heated controversies is calmly and clearly treated in add icles written both hy while and native contributors. The tendency of (he native churches to lorm separate organisations is regretfully imled. (mi, freedom of movement is advocated. Islam in Africa is Healed by Ereiieh. German , and English w l iters

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