Development Governor: Sir Geoffrey Colby - A Biography

by Colin Baker

This is a study of a "development governor" in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in the period leading up to decolonization and the end of empire. Geoffrey Colby came to Nyasaland at a particularly difficult time - when the important white settler community was pressing for the Central African Federation and therefore closer ties with white-dominated Southern Rhodesia, a move resisted by growing African nationalism. He was always aware of the danger of "another...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350183946
• ISBN13: 9781350183940
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"