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Title: | Planned Decolonization and its Failure in British Africa |
Author: | Flint, John |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 82 |
Issue: | 328 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 389-411 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Great Britain colonial territories |
Subjects: | decolonization colonialism History and Exploration international relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/722072 |
Abstract: | This article examines how the decolonization movement originated as a movement for colonial reform in British Africa; what the theoretical assumptions behind this movement were; and how the British proposed, from London, to plan African evolution to self government. The sources are, almost entirely, the Colonial Office files for the period after 1938. First, the author pays attention to two broad interpretations of the movement for decolonization, the 'liberal-nationalist' (or 'bourgeois') and the 'dependista' or 'neo-colonialist' (or 'vulgar Marxist'). Notes. |