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Title:West African colonial civil servants in the nineteenth century: African participation in British colonial expansion in West Africa
Editor:Arhin, KwameISNI
Year:1985
Issue:25
Pages:56
Language:English
Series:Research reports
City of publisher:Leiden
Publisher:African Studies Centre
Geographic terms:English-speaking Africa
West Africa
Great Britain
Subjects:colonialism
civil servants
colonial administration
Africans
External link:https://hdl.handle.net/1887/460
Abstract:From the 1850's to mid 1890's Africans were employed in top positions in the embryonic West African colonial services. This book contains the biographies of three of them: Ferguson on the Gold Coast, Lawson in Sierra Leone and Payne in Nigeria. All three had in common that they believed in British rule as an instrument for civilizing their compatriots. They all believed in progress as exemplified in the British way of life. Without them, there would have been colonial rule. But the countries that emerged from the colonial scramble are, certainly, the richer for their work.
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