Abstract: | The author describes the growth of organized social research in Africa since 1938 She discusses the special difficulties for the social scientist working in African territories and the difficulties of organization. She pleads translation of research studies into vernaculars. Africans should have an opportunity of reading the results of studies done on their own problems The social scientist can help, by teaching and by writing books which will gradually educate the people in Britain and in Africa into an understanding of the social and economic processes which are going on there. |