BOOK REVIEWSGrowing up in Shona Society By M. Gelfand. Gwelo Mambo Press, 1979,228pp., ZR$6,40.Professor Gelfand's detailed study is the most valuable book on educationin traditional Shona society yet to appear. The author has consulted a num-ber of experts with considerable experience of Shona social life. The resultis a concentrated study of the aims and functions of education which is bothaccurate and comprehensive.The title, Growing up in Shona Society, is a good indication of thebook's scope; it deals with birth and development of the child. Gelfandidentifies and describes six important stages in the growth of a child as faras socialization is concerned; from birth to four weeks of age (the periodof the neonate), from four weeks to two years (the stage before crawlinguntil the child can walk), from the time of walking to the age of eight (dur-ing which the child moves away from its mother and seeks the company ofothers of its own sex), from nine years to puberty, pre-adolescent stage, andadolescence.At each stage Gelfand describes the methods used by the traditionalShona to teach the growing child the necessary skills, attitudes, values .andsocial roles. These methods include games, songs, and what he describes asthe three 'R'sŠproverbs, riddles and avoidance rules. Skills are largely taughtquite consciously, while values and attitudes tend to be transmitted lessexplicitly. The various methods of socialization used by the Shona appearto be very effective.The book has much to offer to educationalists, sociologists, adminis-trators, historians and other specialists interested in Shona culture.University of Rhodesia G. L. CHAVUNDUKAArchbishop Aston Chichester 1879-1962 By F. C. Ban, S.J. Gwelo, MamboPress, 1978, 98pp., ZR$l,90.Archbishop Chichester is the most outstanding personality who has yetserved the Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe Rhodesia. If we excludethe present Diocese of Bulawavo, he dominated it from 1931 when he wasmade Vicar Apostolic of Salisbury until 1956, when, now Archbishop andHead of the Rhodesian Hierarchy, he resigned. During those years he, morethan anyone else, transformed a mission into a solidly established church.While developing the previous pastoral work of the rural missions, andof Christian witness through education and nursing, his three personal con-tributions, into which he threw himself as soon as he became Vicar Apos-tolic, were the creation of an African sisterhood, the founding of a seminaryand so of an African clergv, and his inviting other religious orders, besidesthe English Jesuits, who had hitherto been responsible for the SalisburyVicariate, to come to his help, thus greatly increasing the number of workers.113