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PROF. W. M. MACMILLAN, who has been working for the past two years in the Empire Intelligence Section of the British Broadcasting Corporation, has been selected by the British Council to act as its representative in West Africa. He will leave for the West Coast as soon as possible. His appointment follows a survey recently made by Mr. C. A. F. Dundas, the British Council's representative in the Middle Bast. It is hoped to establish institutes in the four West African Colonies, to serve as intellectual and cultural centres and to demonstrate the progress made in Britain in the fields of science, pure and applied, literature, art, music and drama. The necessary executive staff is now being assembled. Prof. Macmillan, lately professor of history and research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a member of the Colonial Office Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies. He has spent many years in Africa and several of his books are widely known ; they include “Warning from the West Indies” (1936), and “Africa Emergent” (1938).
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British Council : New Institutes in West Africa. Nature 151, 329 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151329c0
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