Why not solace
p. 95 · Read in the full issue
for lovelorn Islanders?
When the Central African Mail in Zambia started a “Tell Me, Josephine” column, it was inundated with letters from love lorn and troubled Africans, mostly male unlike Dorothy Dix and her sisters, whose seekers after truth are mostly female.
A selection of the letters —and Josephine’s answers—edited and arranged with explanatory notes by Barbara Hall, is an hilarious small book. Probably more than most anthropological treatises, it gives considerable insight into the mind and circumstances of the modern African.
In many ways the modern Pacific Islander is undergoing the same sort of cultural change as the African, Perhaps some Islands newspaper could tap the same source of material by copying the Central African Mail and inventing a Josephine of its own. (Pan. 60c).