188BOOK REVIEWbeginnings of African Purchase Area farms, and, in brief, the social and economiclife of the African during the period covered. We find that to Made no man is toolow or too high for his class. He is a man 'of the people', liked by compoundworkers, juniors, equals and senior people. He still has not changed at all: he is evenmore at home with those considered by the class-conscious snobs as 'low class' and'middle class', and still has all his 1950s Kambuzuma and farm friends, eventhough he holds one of the most coveted positions in the country. The autobio-graphy is well written, and stands among the first autobiographies by ZimbabweanAfricans who have 'made it' in life.National Archives, SalisburyB.L.B. MUSHONGAA Town Called Victoria: Or, The Rise and Fall of the Thatched House HotelBy K. Sayce. Bulawayo, Books of Rhodesia, 1978, 127 pp., Z$5.52.This modest book does not go beyond 1914Š15 and the history of the town oftenbecomes merged into that of the region and indeed Southern Rhodesia. Therefore itis hardly serious urban history but the author has done some groundwork in thearchives and secondary sources.R.S.R.