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Title: | The Colonial Office and Planned Decolonization in Africa |
Author: | Pearce, Robert |
Year: | 1984 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 83 |
Issue: | 330 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 77-93 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Great Britain colonial territories |
Subjects: | decolonization colonialism History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/721460 |
Abstract: | In the months just before and after the outbreak of war in Sept. 1939, a revolution in attitudes took place in the Colonial Office (CO). 'Decentralization' ceased to be a spectre that haunted the Whitehall bureaucrats and became instead a desirable objective; power would be transferred to Africans, to the educated middle class and not to tribal chiefs. By 1943 the CO had not only produced a plan for colonial reform/decolonization, bat had achieved a consensus with West African nationalist on all points but the need for a timetable. This paper does not answer the question: 'How did policy develop?', for it did not do so, but rather 'Why did it fail?'. Notes. |