Colonial Cadet in Nigeria
Date
1968
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Durham: Duke University Press,
Abstract
Touring Officer, Kano Division; On Special Duties; Assistant District Officer, Zaria Division; Touring Reports; A Leadership Course for Jahun District Councilors; A Resettlement Scheme in Kim District; Report on Tarai Village; District Council Inspection at Kumbotso—June 1952; Adult Literacy Campaign Progress Report; Progress Report on the Adult Literacy Campaign, Zaria Province; Touring Notes: Kauru District, Zaria Division; Intelligence Report: Kauru and Lere Districts
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This book recalls the author’s first five years in Northern Nigeria. He was appointed as a cadet in 1951, the last year of large-scale British recruitment to the Nigerian Administrative Service, which was to be so recklessly and needlessly dispersed a decade later. As his sources he made used of diaries, correspondence, and official reports which he wrote at the time. Some of the official reports are included at the end of the book. His object has been simple: to show the kind of men he was and the type of work the majority of them, at the broad base of the administrative pyramid, did, and how they did it.
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