It is now well over a hundred and fifty years since the first celebrated geographical explorations of Africa took place. However, it was many years before there began quests of a different kind the investigation of behaviour, personality, attitude and ability among Africa s people. Originally published in 1975, this book is an account of that work: the first explorations in Africa of psychology.

In an exhaustive and well-documented report the author, a psychologist who had himself done research in Nigeria, Uganda and who had lectured at Makerere University, drew together the main...