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Patrick Walker

Towards Independence in Africa

A District Officer in Uganda at the End of Empire

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Politics were often turbulent in African countries in the period leading to their independence in the 1950s and beyond. But for Ugandans and the Colonial Administration alike this was a time of hope and optimism - though fears for the future of the 'Westminister Model', nurtured so carefully by the Colonial Administration, were never absent. Already there were dark clouds of future tragedy over the neighbouring Congo and Rwanda. Patrick Walker, who was a District Officer in the region, draws on his vivid personal experience to illustrate both the hope and tragedy of that tempestuous time. Posted to Uganda in 1956, he served in both the Easter… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-85771-744-3
  • EAN: 9780857717443
  • Produktnummer: 22574599
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 7'072 KB

Über den Autor


Patrick Walker caught the African 'bug' in early boyhood in Kenya and after Oxford and the 'Devonshire' course for the Overseas Civil Service, he served in Uganda from 1956 to 1963. On leaving the Colonial Service he joined MI5 where he was Director-General from 1988 to 1992.

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