The Colonial Account
Margery Perham evaluates the positives and negatives of British colonial rule in her fifth Reith Lecture entitled 'The Colonial Account'.
African affairs writer and lecturer Margery Perham discusses the effects of colonialism in tropical Africa. In 1939 she became the first female fellow of Nuffield College at Oxford University before being appointed as Director of the Oxford Institute of Colonial Studies in 1945. In her Reith series entitled 'The Colonial Reckoning', she highlights problems of colonial rule.
In this lecture entitled 'The Colonial Account', she offers her evaluation of colonialism, setting out the balance of achievements and of mistakes in the British colonial record.
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- Thu 14 Dec 1961 09:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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