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.113116 BOOK REVIEWSThe transformation is seen from the fact that the number of Catholicsin the area for which he had assumed responsibility in 1931 had grownfrom 26 000 to 114 000 by 1956, the number of priests from 46 to 142,of Sisters from 179 to 353, of whom about 170 were African, and of ReligiousBrothers from 2 to 65. Fourteen Africans had been ordained and many morewere in training. Finally what had been the Vicariate of Salisbury hadbecome an Archdiocese and two Dioceses.Fr Barr's Memoir brings out Chichester's characteristics as can only bedone by someone who has known him well. It is no panegyric; Chichester'sblind spots, his failure to see that his own toughness made it possible forhim to make demands on himself which he could not always make on others,are here for all to see. But, with all that, the Memoir brings out clearly hisreal lovableness. For that was the adjective applied to him by all who knewhim. He was interested in everyone, from the V.I.P.s whom he met atGovernment House to the children of an African kraal, and he genuinelywished to make everyone happy. Most revealing is that after the day in 1955when the Hierarchy was established, when he had been feted by the Govern-or General of the Federation, by the Governor of Rhodesia, by the RhodesianGovernment and by others, he slipped away to show kindness and give giftsto some who had been unable to enjoy the celebrations, namely the lepersat Mtemwa. A man of drive, but of prayer, of humility and of love of Godand all others; such was Archbishop Chichester.University of Rhodesia W. F. REA, S.J.Anatomy of a Rebel: Smith of Rhodesia By P. Joyce. Salisbury, GrahamPublishing, 1974, 480pp., ZR$9,75.The Quiet Man By P. Berlyn. Salisbury, M. O. Collins, 1978, 256pp.., ZR$11,50.Smith of Rhodesia By M. C. White. [Cape Town], D. Nelson, 1978, 134pp.,illustrated, R12,00.Now that it appears that Peregrine Worsthorne's much heralded biographyof I. D. Smith is not going to be written, it is time to review the little thatwe have on this key figure in the history of the last twenty years. The firstthing to be said is that none of these books is worthy of the subject's im-portance. Joyce's book is an honest if limited attempt to chronicle both therecent history of Zimbabwe Rhodesia and Smith's part in it, but the authorhas no real insight into either. This is not entirely surprising, as he enjoyedno access to Smith or his papers and therefore had to rely entirely on thepublic record.The author of the second work, Berlyn, did enjoy some co-operation,apparently, but it has not produced any better interpretation of its subject.Indeed, because of an uncritical approach, it is even less satisfactory thanJoyce's book; and in the absence of any new facts, it is difficult to understandwhy it was written or published Š particularly in the haste that is apparentthroughout in its repetitions and lack of organization.