Between niger and nile

Historian, scholar and traveler, Arnold Toynbee first visited the African countries of Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia the United Arab Republic and Libya in the early 1960s. He records his impressions of these lands in an acute, persuasive and knowledgeable manner. Basing his travel philosophy on tolerance and an intelligent appreciation of world affairs, Toynbee also touches on the question of "The Two Africas" and of the rival claims of "Negritude" and "Arabism." "Everything that Toynbee writes has shape, corresponding to the patterns which he detects in history and geography. No reader can fail to profit from communing with Toynbee's luminous and vigorous mind." (The London Times Literary Supplement)