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Title: | Experts and expertise in Colonial Malawi |
Author: | McCracken, John |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 81 |
Issue: | 322 |
Pages: | 101-116 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Malawi Great Britain |
Subjects: | colonialism agricultural research |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/721507 |
Abstract: | This paper does not explore the influence of foreign experts in contemporary Africa; rather it attempts to describe the early modest origins and ambiguous impact of a group of technical officers in Malawi up to the 1940s. Despite their voluminous writings, the applied technicians of empire have been largely neglected by historians. But while agricultural officers and entomologists were not the most prestigeous members of the Colonial Service they were by no means the least important. Sections: Cotton growing - The Tsetse Fly menace - Soil conservation - East Coast fever - Conclusion. Map, notes. |