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DURING the last fifty years, Africa has passed from the age of the pioneer and of geographical exploration, and has become a mosaic of more or less organised territories, controlled by European Powers. But although Africa has made such an advance that Nairobi, where forty years ago no vestige of human life was to be seen, is now a modern city with hotels and cinemas, in the less accessible parts, off the rail and main roads, tribes still exist as we knew them long ago: men and women nude, the only instrument of agriculture a pointed stick, and money in the form of coin still unknown. What has been the effect of the impact of the twentieth century on these relics of the stone age? This is the field of the new exploration of Africa, the field in which we need the assistance of the practical and constructive anthropologist.
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Africa in Transition*. Nature 128, 730 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128730a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128730a0