120BOOK REVIEWSsixteen units in the Indian and Coloured neighbourhood on the other sideof town.Finally, there are simply too many unnecessary errors. I mention onlya few. The author of a pilot P.D.L. survey is given as Roger instead ofRogers (fn., p. 235). Dr Weinrich claims (p. 29) that employment figurescannot be released under the Emergency Regulations. It is true that un-employment statistics are hard to come by and where they are available (suchas from the Labour Exchanges) they are so unreliable as to be useless. Butnational employment figures are routinely published by industry in theCentral Statistical Office's bulletin every quarter. Where she refers to anew 'comprehensive' secondary school, she probably means an F2 (practic-ally oriented) school (p. 30). Her claim that railway employees in othermajor centres, unlike in Fort Victoria, are accommodated in six-roomedhouses would hold only for very few (p. 112). Later she indicates that thefive hundred people who were detained during the 1959 Emergency werenot released until 1962 (p. 184); this, again, is only true for a few, since thevast majority were released within the first three months after the Emer-gency. This, of course, is not to say that it was necessary or should be con-doned.Nonetheless, in an area in which little has been published in Rhodesia,this book, due to its wealth of detail, is an important and useful contribu-tion. For those who would wish to understand change, or absence of change,in the urban Zimbabwe of tomorrow, Mucheke would provide a valuablebackground.University of RhodesiaC. M. BRANDA Bibliography of the Birds of Rhodesia, 1873-1977 By M. P. Stuart Irwin.Salisbury, The Rhodesian Ornithological Society, 1978, 241pp., Rh$5,00.This is definitely a book for the specialist worker in ornithology, andcannot, therefore, be expected to have a wide popular appeal. It is, however,one of the most comprehensive works of its kind ever produced. Even in agreatly condensed form, it runs to over 200 pages, with another seventeenblank pages at the end (presumably for the user to make his own additions).It covers 656 species, most of which have one or more major and severalminor references, amounting to something like 5000 all told. Truly amagnum opus!While it could under no circumstances be called a book to take up andbrowse through, I found a number of comments under various species whichintrigued me and made me want to read further. For example, 'The referencein Ostrich 169 was originally listed under Gallinago nigripennis, but is amisidentification of the present species' (Great Snipe); 'The reference inIbis 25 to a bird perhaps near M. olivaceus is probably an allusion to thepresent species and is included on this presumption' (Orange-breasted BushShrike); 'The occurrence of this recently proposed species within Rhodesiastill requires confirmation as does its specific status' (Brown Firefinch ln-digobird).BOOK REVIEWS221Having said that this book is one for the specialist in ornithology, itis certainly one that nobody seriously interested in Rhodesian ornithologycan afford to be without. In the Introduction, the author says, 'It was theoriginal intention that this bibliography would form part of an updated bookon the birds of Rhodesia, a work which at present remain-s in manuscript";it is to be hoped that the latter work will not be long in appearing.Blair Research Laboratory. SalisburyR. M. HARVVINProminent African Personalities of Rhodesia Salisbury Cover PublicityServices, 1978, illustrated, xi, 196 pp. no price indicated.This is the second edition of this publication, it contains some 500 Africanpersonalities (nearly half the book being in fact taken up by advertisements,which, however, give an interesting glimpse of the African market in Rho-desia). The potential value of such a work of reference is negated by theapparent lack of clear criteria by which entries are chosen for inclusion; theresult is, therefore, something of a 'rag-bag'. It is particularly noticeablethat the better educated and the more political members of the Africancommunity are either left out or given a write-up that is misleading by itsomissions.R.S.R.Rebel People By D. Hills. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1978, 248 pp.,£5,50.The first sixty pages of this book carry on from The While Pumpkin andthe author's imprisonment in Uganda. Thereafter, the book concerns Rho-desia, where the author came (for reasons never really explained) and spentpart of the years 1976-8 in teaching at the Teachers' College, Gwelo. Thesurvey of the Rhodesian situation is little more than journalism; but, at atime when the professional journalists in Rhodesia rarely venture beyondSalisbury's bars and Government press-releases, this has a refreshing touchof immediacy, of contact with Africans, and indeed Europeans, outside Salis-bury. It is interesting to see how an uncommitted, sceptical traveller, whoknows other parts of Africa and its literature, finds little that is praise-worthy in Rhodesia of today Š whether the guerillas, the silent Africanmajority, or the Europeans. The picture is depressing but accurate (exceptin spelling of proper names Š the publishers apparently no longer employeditors); no-one it is to be feared, will come well out of the 'Rhodesian pro-blem'.R.S.R.