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To students of tropical African development, T this book may be commended as the earnest effort of an acute thinker to set out a problem and provide the answer to it. In his description of present-day conditions in that large group of East African territories, which vary as greatly in the character of their native inhabitants as in that of their geographical features, Major Church has been studiously fair-minded, and his treatment of local personalities and local policies will go far to undo the mischievous effects of the work on Kenya published three years ago by Dr. Norman Leys. Almost every page in the book raises questions of interest or points of controversy, and it is not possible within the limits of a short review to do more than select a few items for comment.
East Africa, a new Dominion: a Crucial Experiment in Tropical Development and its Significance to the British Empire.
By Major Archibald Church. Pp. 315 + 12 plates. (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1927.) 18s. net.
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East Africa, a new Dominion: a Crucial Experiment in Tropical Development and its Significance to the British Empire . Nature 119, 917–919 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119917a0
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