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DESPITE the obligations which, in commoil with France and the Union Government of South Africa, Great Britain has incurred in accepting the trusteeship of some four millions of Africans under mandate from the League of Nations, a rather vague pride in past achievements in suppressing the slave trade, and a careless prejudice against any claims of the native races to be more than hewers of wood and drawers of water, colour much of such public opinion as is from time to time called into existence by affairs in Kenya Colony and Tshekedi or similar incidents. The situation is all the more deplorable in that during recent years there has been available a wealth of material which can assist the intelligent layman to pass accurate judgment on African affairs, such as the reports of the East African Commission of 1924, under Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, and of the Hilton Young Commission in 1929, Lord Lugard's studies of the principles of administration of backward races, and so on.
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Pride and Prejudice in Africa. Nature 133, 773–775 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133773a0
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