By Lawrence Butler

Taking colonial coverage in the direction of West Africa as a case learn, Butler exhibits that, in the course of the Nineteen Forties, the Colonial place of work developed a coverage of encouraging colonial as a part of a vast programme of improvement meant to organize colonies for independence.

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