Colonial cadet in Nigeria
| dc.contributor.author | SMITH, John | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-07T17:16:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-07T17:16:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1968 | |
| dc.description | The work and life of British administrators in colonial Northern Nigeria in the early years of the century is well documented. Little has been written since that is generally available, and the interesting period immediately prior to independence has inevitably and rightly been studied from the viewpoint of the Nigerian nationalist rather than from that of the British official. This book recalls my first five years in Northern Nigeria. I 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 my sources I have used diaries, correspondence, and official reports which I wrote at the time. Some of the official reports are included at the end of the book. My object has been simple: to show the kind of men we were and the type of work the majority of us, at the broad base of the administrative pyramid, did, and how we did it. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Touring officer, Kano division; On special duties; Assistant district officer, Zaria division; Touring reports. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/1348 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Duke University Commonwealth-Studies Center series; No. 34 | |
| dc.title | Colonial cadet in Nigeria | |
| dc.type | Book |