By Alwyn Dow
My Experiences in East Africa
Victoria Falls: by Diego Delso - Wikimedia Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem stressed the need to serve those whom Empire took under its wing. So where did it all go wrong? Maybe Rhodesia is a case in point. I was in the region and I supported the view of the British Government that there should be no independence for Rhodesia before majority rule (NIBMAR). This article is a respectful testament to those who lived and served in East and Southern Africa around those times.
The writing has been on the wall since the 1958 Accra Conference had signalled a shift in British attitudes on the part of Colonial Secretaries Alan Lennox-Boyd and Iain MacLeod whose views
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