ABSTRACT

Margery Perham was an outstanding influence on official and academic thinking on British Colonial rule and decolonization in Africa during the middle part of the century. The book traces how the Second World War transformed her view of colonial rule and of the rate at which it would have to be relinquished.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|6 pages

Prologue

The Two Miss Perhams

chapter 2|18 pages

Margery Perham's Image of Africa

chapter 6|12 pages

Margery Perham and Africans and British Rule

A wartime publication

chapter 8|20 pages

Writing the Biography of Lord Lugard

chapter 10|26 pages

‘Dear Mr Mboya'

correspondence with a Kenya nationalist

chapter 12|4 pages

Margery Perham and Broadcasting

A personal reminiscence

chapter 13|11 pages

The Nigerian Civil War

chapter 14|17 pages

Margery Perham and her Archive