ABSTRACT
David W. Brokensha’s (D.W.B) long interest in social inequality stems initially from his exposure to inequalities of acceptance and opportunity in his own background; they were cemented in teen-age and young adult years by his first-hand experience at the receiving end, so to speak, of rejection processes. When D.W.B. relocated to urban-township administration in Bulawayo, the move brought his professional attention to more entrenched, sophisticated forms of social inequality. Only after sustained and bitter administrative battles had the white government of the day, at both municipal and national levels, accepted any concept of African home ownership in settler areas. While in Ghana in the late fifties and early sixties, D.W.B. had been involved with Volta Resettlement, in surveys brought about by the creation of Akosombo Dam and Lake Volta during the Nkrumah administration. This occurred long before the advent of mandatory social-impact analysis, required by many international agencies before funding commences.
