ABSTRACT
If you had been living in the 1920s, you would easily have thought that Africans could never again be free to run their own countries. Only Ethiopia and Liberia had their own governments: everywhere else, the colonial systems were strong and growing stronger. All resistance had failed; only the various ways of accommodation (of ‘adjusting’) seemed to remain. But even accommodation was far from easy; in the settler colonies, it was still more difficult.
