Toufayan, M. (2014), "When British Justice (in African Colonies) Points Two Ways: On Dualism, Hybridity, and the Genealogy of Juridical Negritude in Taslim Olawale Elias", in Onazi, O. (Ed.) African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 31-70....
Taxation was one of the most contentious aspects of British colonial rule in Africa, shaping relationships between Africans, colonial governments, and European settlers. This is the first detailed comparative study of both taxation and public spending in British colonies in Africa....
followed by Burma in 1948. Newfoundland also joined the Dominion of Canada in 1949. Egypt forced the British army out of the country and the Suez Canal Zone in 1956, and several British colonies in Africa won their independence. In the 1960...
The thirteen British colonies in North America that joined together to form the original states of the United States, including New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Ameri...
Prof. Macmillan, lately professor of history and research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a member of the Colonial Office Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies. He has spent many years in Africa and several of his books are widely known; they include "...
E. B. Worthington, secretary of the Freshwater Biological Association, and author of the section on "Science in Africa" in Lord Hailey's "African Survey"; Major-General Sir John Taylor, late director of the Central Research Institute, Punjab. Those who took part in the subsequent discussion ...
The progress of the Cape towards self-government took a course similar to that of British colonies of conquest and settlement elsewhere. As in French Canada, a governor with arbitrary power replaced the military rule of the conquest era. As in New South
BRITISH coloniesWORLD War IIIMPERIALISMBy analysing their positions towards race and colonialism, the present article complements existing studies on the Polish refugees and offi cials who settled in British East Africa during and after the Second World War. By using lesser-known mat...
Despite the renewed efforts of historians and politicians, the memory of the service of Black troops from former British colonies remains marginalized, in particular, those from Africa and the Caribbean. In this article, using mostly government archives, I argue that the origins of present day ...
From the 1920s, the Labour party advocated that the colonies be encouraged to develop trade unions, co-operatives and local government. Some tentative moves in this direction were made in 1930 by Ramsay MacDonald's administration but it was not until Labour came to power in 1945 that, in ...