ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the attitude which the Western world should take to the problems, of material aid to the countries of tropical Africa. The objective in the economic and social fields is not essentially different for the West and East African Territories, in spite of their being at different stages of political advance. The chapter illustrates the needs of these countries by describing very briefly the economy of the one the author knows best, Uganda. This brief picture is of a country with a mainly peasant economy. It is of a country engaged in building up its basic utilities, developing new industries, improving and extending its education, and helping Africans to expand from production into other economic activities. Proposals for individual tenure which we put forward in Uganda also met with opposition in some places, although they were most carefully explained by the Minister of Land Tenure, himself an African, and by other people.
