ABSTRACT
In the immediate years after the Second World War the white population in Rhodesia grew phenomenally. The white government there strongly encouraged white migration because it wanted to make a miniature South Africa, uniting and securing the mineral wealth of Southern and Northern Rhodesia. Maisie Wright, who was a psychiatric social worker in the Brighton region when the College started up, makes the point that much of the careful checking of the children's background was done by social workers like herself, all members of the British Federation of Social Workers (BFSW). Sending children to Africa was sending them into a very different culture, more alien than Canada or Australia. None of the children had even seen an African, and aged six or seven, the children had no idea of the history of the place. They knew nothing of racial prejudice but their attitudes were naturally moulded as children.
