The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa : Essays in Contemporary History

Less formal but no less important debts of gratitude are owed to a very large number of friends and colleagues whose writings, comments on drafts, and conversation are largely responsible for such signs of coherence as may be detected in these essays. I will not attempt to name them all; but I must record with gratitude that two of these papers were first aired in the Aberdeen University African Studies Group and that all of them owe much to the shrewd criticism, often renewed at successive stages of composition, of Roy Bridges. XV Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Decolonization or Liberation?....Pages 3-23 Wartime Origins of Political Transfer....Pages 24-48 Approaches to Decolonization in Sierra Leone....Pages 49-69 Resisters, Collaborators, Heritors....Pages 70-85 Front Matter....Pages 87-87 Changing Views from an Ivory Tower....Pages 89-98 The Idea of a Colonial University....Pages 99-111 History: African and Contemporary....Pages 112-122 Back Matter....Pages 123-141