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Time and the Hour
R.t. Kerslake
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Description for Time and the Hour
Hardcover. The story of Kerslake's experience of the Colonial Service in Nigeria from 1937 to 1946. This was the time of the watershed between the policy of trusteeship (the guiding principle of the Colonial Service before World War II), and the constitutional changes leading to independence after the war. Num Pages: 256 pages, halftones, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JJ; BGHA; HBJH; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 27. Weight in Grams: 531.
This is the story of a young man's experience of the Colonial Service in Nigeria from 1937 to 1946. This was the time of the watershed between the policy of trusteeship, which was the guiding principle of the Colonial Service before World War II, and the constitutional changes leading to independence after the war. After apprenticeship, the author joined the Nigeria Regiment in 1939, and describes the East Africa campaign of 1940-1941. Returning to civil duty in 1942, he was posted to the remote, conservative sheikdom of Bornu, near Lake Chad, Maiduguri, capital of Bornu. After leave in 1944, the ... Read more
This is the story of a young man's experience of the Colonial Service in Nigeria from 1937 to 1946. This was the time of the watershed between the policy of trusteeship, which was the guiding principle of the Colonial Service before World War II, and the constitutional changes leading to independence after the war. After apprenticeship, the author joined the Nigeria Regiment in 1939, and describes the East Africa campaign of 1940-1941. Returning to civil duty in 1942, he was posted to the remote, conservative sheikdom of Bornu, near Lake Chad, Maiduguri, capital of Bornu. After leave in 1944, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860641541
SKU
V9781860641541
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99-5
About R.t. Kerslake
Trevor Kerslake joined the Colonial Service in Nigeria in 1937 and served as an administrative officer in the provinces of Katsina, Bornu and Adamawa, on Nigeria’s northern fringe. From 1939 to 1942 he was an infantry officer with the Nigeria Regiment and was closely involved with the surrender of Italian authority in Mogadishu, Harar and Addis Ababa. He resigned from ... Read more
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