Oscar from Africa: Biography of O.F. Watkins

by Elizabeth Watkins

Oscar Watkins was a Bisley shot and a hockey ""Blue"" for Oxford University; a cavalry trooper in the Boer War; a magistrate on the Kenya Slave Courts which freed the slaves early in this century; Commandant of the 400,000-strong Carrier Corps in the East Africa Campaign in World War I; acting Kenya Chief Native Commissioner and Provincial Commissioner; and the first editor of a Swahilli newspaper which, under his editorship, gained the largest circulation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850439486
• ISBN13: 9781850439486
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Radcliffe Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"