But the achievement was not complicated, as it is in British East and Central Africa, by deeply entrenched white settler populations. There the rising pressures for independence were giving the ...

Badawi does not come off as an African voice for African history, but instead the latest, and far from the best, in a long line of British academics taking on the task of writing about Africa.

ATTENTION was first directed to “British Central Africa” by Dr. Livingstone in 1859. By the term “British Central Africa” I mean the present protectorate of “Nyasaland,” together with ...