To Independence and Beyond: Memoirs of a Colonial Commonwealth Civil Servant

by Peter Snelson and Snelson

The importance of education and training in developing countries is central to Peter Snelson's memoirs. After Cambridge, RAF service and teaching in Britain, in 1954 he went to Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia), where he worked as a teacher and education officer, later becoming Director of Planning at the Ministry of Education. He experienced at first hand the effects of the intense, sometimes violent, political activity of the years leading up to Zambia's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850435723
• ISBN13: 9781850435723
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 342 Pages