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Title: | Canada in Africa: Sir Percy Girouard, Neglected Colonial Governor |
Author: | Kirk-Greene, Anthony H.M. |
Year: | 1984 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 83 |
Issue: | 331 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 207-239 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Great Britain colonial territories |
Subjects: | colonialism colonial administrators biographies (form) international relations History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/721560 |
Abstract: | On the basis of recently discovered personal papers, memoirs, letters, press-cuttings and photograph albums, as well as a personal file at the Royal Military College, Kingston (Canada), the Colonial Office files in London, and extensive secondary sources, the author presents a preliminary outline sketch for a biography of Sir Percy Girouard (1867-1932). Knighted at the age of 33, Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard was appointed the first governor of Northern Nigeria at the age of 40. At 42, he was promoted to the Class I governorship of British East Africa (Kenya). Within a dozen years, from 1896 to 1908, he had laid down a network of railways in North, South and West Africa, lines which were still in use fifty years later. Within a few more, he had had top-level experience of railway administration in North and South Africa and of colonial administration in West and East Africa. Few Canadians took a more positive part in the development of Africa than Girouard. A full-length biography is long overdue. Notes. |