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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.
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