A World of Peoples by Robert Gardiner
Executive Secretary,
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
5: Political Meetings
A summing-up of the history of colonial relations; the standard colonist attitudes; the clash between the power of the rulers and the self-esteem of the ruled, and the development of self-esteem as a political force; the life-cycle of a typical colony, from conquest to independence. The legacies of the colonial era in the attitudes of newly independent states.
Repeated: Monday, 7.30 (Third) These lectures are being printed in The Listener ' followed by an interlude