In 1785 Johann Gottfried Herder lamented the dearth of accurate infor- mation concerning the peoples of Africa. His assertion is true even today of wide areas of this continent, despite developments in the sciences per- taining to Africa, in which Germany lags far behind many other countries. Not only the need for a better understanding of the problems of Africa's peoples in the face of present-day radical social and cultural change, but our historical...