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The Reith Lectures: Margery Perham - The Colonial Reckoning: African Nationalism

1961: Margery Perham - The Colonial Reckoning

23/11/1961

African Nationalism

Margery Perham - The Colonial Reckoning

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Margery Perham - The Colonial Reckoning, African Nationalism

Margery Perham explores how anti-colonialism led to emancipation in Africa.

Margery Perham explores how anti-colonialism led to emancipation in Africa in her second lecture entitled 'African Nationalism'.

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 'African Nationalism', she explores the positive side of anti-colonialism, which is emancipation. She discusses how and why this force has started and tries to explain how it has led to African freedom from British and French rule. She analyses some of the converging events and influences which have turned the world into a hot-house for the forced and rapid growth of African nationalism.

The Reith Lectures: Margery Perham - The Colonial Reckoning

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Margery Perham, lecturer on African affairs, considers the effects of colonialism.

Margery Perham, writer and lecturer on African affairs and first Director of the Oxford Institute of Colonial Studies, considers the effects of colonialism in six Reith lectures.

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