¹ The fact that there is now a course being taught at the Sorbonne on southern Africa suggests that our colleagues may be waking up to the existence of this gap, as does the appearance of Yves Person's long, if at times heavily derivative, review article ‘Idéologie et histoire sud-africaines’ in Revue francaise d'etudes politiqiies africaines, December, 1977Google Scholar. It is a pity that the author ofthis has allowed himself to repeat almost word for word, the superficial judgments of Wright's, HarrisonBurden of the Present (Rex Collings, 1977)Google Scholar.