Colonial Office policy towards British West Africa in World Wars

Author(s):  
Fewzi Borsali
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1916 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Evan MacGregor

It is a well-known fact that the eggs of Stegomyia fasciata are highly resistant to conditions adverse to their normal development.In April 1915 I received through the Colonial Office a few dried leaves from West Africa, on which—secured by a fine mud deposit—were eggs of this mosquito that had been in a dried condition for at least three and a half months. These were found to be viable and were successfully hatched and reared for many successive generations, as described in a recent paper.


2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barrie M. Ratcliffe

Résumé Pendant les décennies 1850 et 1860, beaucoup d'efforts ont été consacrés au maintien de la production du coton brut, destiné à l'exportation, dans différentes régions de l'Afrique occidentale. A partir du cas des marchands de Manchester, et à la lumière tant des documents du « Colonial Office » que des sources privées et publiques de Manchester, l'auteur étudie les causes et effets de ces efforts. II les replace d'abord dans le contexte des vues contemporaines sur l'impérialisme européen en Afrique occidentale et, en particulier, dans celui de l'importance qui s'avère capitale, à l'époque, de rechercher des marchés et des sources nouvelles de matières premières. Il s'applique ensuite à définir la nature des rapports qui s'établissent, d'une part, entre le gouvernement et les divers groupes de pression et, d'autre part, entre la métropole et la périphérie. Enfin, il conclut que si l'étude de ce cas particulier ne jette pas toute la lumière sur le rôle qu'ont pu jouer les matières premières dans les relations qu'a entretenues la métropole avec les zones périphériques, elle n'en démontre pas moins l'importance du problème et tout l'intérêt qu'il peut susciter.


Author(s):  
Mélanie Torrent

Melanie Torrent highlights the perspective of British officials, who had to make sense of a process regarded as entirely different from their own experiences. The British impression was that, while they had efficiently planned their own retreat over a longer period, and guaranteed the survival of the Commonwealth, this stood in sharp contrast with the imperfections and the lack of vision inherent in the short-lived French ‘Community’ initiative (1958) from Paris. Torrent holds that the British believed their pattern of decolonization produced very different, more challenging but overall more equal and better relations between the former metropole and the newly independent African countries. There never was any suggestion to regard French policies as a model. Even so, according to Torrent’s interpretation, the French retreat from its former colonies internally put pressure on British officials, given that the Colonial Office was still in charge of affairs in Sierra Leone and the Gambia, and that the conflict-ridden situation in large parts of the territories of Eastern and Southern Africa was still unresolved.


1910 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubert Boyce

Havingtaken part as a volunteer in the great yellow fever epidemic of 1905 in New Orleans, I was later in the same year sent by the Colonial Office to enquire into yellow fever in British Honduras and the adjacent Central American Republics.


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