The Somali Question

The Member of Parliament for South-East Essex, gave the addressWhich follows at a Joint meeting of the Royal African Societyand the Royal Commonwealth Society on May 1, 1958. BrigadierS. H. Longrigg presided.     

America Discovers Africa

The address that follows was given before a joint meeting ofthe Royal African Society and the Royal Empire Society on February6, 1958. Mr. B. F. Macdona, vice-chairman of the Council, presided.     

Education in the Gold Coast

The July journal contained articles on African higher educationby a number of distinguished authorities, all European. Thewriter of the following (slightly abridged) lecture is an African,Principal of the Mfantsipim College, and William Paton Lecturerat Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham. He gave it the subsidiarytitle of Growing Pains and Growing Points when he deliveredit at the Royal Empire Society on the 29th June, Lord Haileybeing in the chair.     

Current Events In Tunisia

The following address by the Tunisian Ambassador in London wasgiven at a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and theRoyal Empire Society on March 6, 1958. Sir Knox Helm, formerGovernor-General of the Sudan, presided.     

Corrigendum

In the short note published in the last issue, ‘The SeventiethAnniversary of the Founding of the Royal African Society’it was erroneously stated that Mr Swanzy had been editor ofthe Society's journal ‘for many years before 1944’and Alan Gray from 1944 to 1966. Mr Swanzy points out that his editorship ran from 1944 to 1954,when he was succeeded by Alan Gray. It was in fact he who renamedthe journal African Affairs to differentiate its content fromthat of the International African Institute, and who institutedthe valuable, though exacting, feature ‘Quarterly Notes’. Mr Swanzy himself contributed to the 1951 Jubilee number animportant review of the Royal African's Society's history tothis date. The editors much regret these substantial errors and omissions,and are glad to be reminded of them.     

Libyan Aspirations

This article is a lecture delivered by a former member of theCivil Affairs Branch, Middle East, at a combined meeting withthe Royal Empire Society on the 27th November. It is designedin some sort as a companion to Brigadier Longrigg‘s analysisof Eritrea, published in African Affairs for October, and itmay also be read with Dr. Evans-Pritchard’s Italy andthe Bedouin in Cyrenaica in the journal for January 1946.     

The Challenge of Education in British Overseas Territories

This address was. given at a joint meeting of the Royal AfricanSociety and the Royal Empire Society on December 5, 1957. Major-GeneralSir Ralph Hone presided.     

ERRATUM

The editors regret that a number of errors were uncorrectedin the article by Bruce Berman, ‘Ethnicity, patronageand the African state’ (African Affairs, No. 388, July1998, pp. 305–341). This erratum slip should be pastedopposite p. 305 at the beginning of the article.     

West African Marketing Boards

This article represents the main parts of a lecture deliveredon the 30th October, with Lord Milverton in the chair. Mr. Williamsis editor of West Africa and the West African Review. He servedwith the Forces in East Africa during the War.     

West African Voices: 2

Last quarter, we gave an example of traditional West Africanpoetry, broadcast in the Regional transmission of the B.B.C.Readers may be interested now to read some examples of originalwriting in English, of which other illustrations were printedin African Affairs a year or two     

The Developing Federation and Partnership How is it Progressing?

The address that follows was given by the Head of the RhodesianDepartment of Selection Trust at a Joint meeting of the RoyalAfrican Society and Royal Commonwealth Society on July 3, 1958The High Commissioner for the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland,Sir Gilbert Rennie, G.B.E., K.C.M.G., M.C., took the chair.     

South Africa's Position in the Western World

This address by the South African High Commissioner in Londonwas given at a joint meeting of the Royal African Society andthe Royal Empire Society on February 24. The Earl of Clarendon,an honorary Vice-President of the Royal African Society, wasin the Chair. The vote of thanks at the conclusion of the addresswas proposed by Sir Harry Batterbee, Deputy Chairman of theRoyal Empire Society, on behalf of both Societies.     

The Last Nine Years in Tanganyika

Princess Alice, President of the Royal African Society, waspresent to hear this address given by the former Governor ofTanganyika to a joint meeting of the Royal African Society andthe Royal Commonwealth Society on October 2 1958, Colonel SirCharles Ponsonby Bt. was in the chair.     

The Horn of Africa

The following address was given by Mr. Waterfield to a jointmeeting of the Royal African Society.and the Royal Empire Societyon October 3, 1957. Mr. B. F. Macdona, vice-chairman of theCouncil of the Royal African Society, was in the chair.     

Corrigendum

It is regretted that in the article ‘Africanist Studiesin Italy’, in the April 1970 issue of African Affairs,Professor Castro, the author of Richerche sul matrimonio a terminenel diritro islamico, was erroneously referred to as ‘thelate F. Castro’. We tender our sincere apologies to ProfessorCastro.     

Making a Nation in Kenya

The address that follows was given by in the Hon. Michael BlundellM.L.C. former Minister of Agriculture, Kenya, at a joint meetingof the Royal African Society and the Royal Commonwealth Societyon May 7,1959. Mr. Brian Macdona, Vice Chairman of the Councilof the Royal African Society, took the chair.     

Rewriting the African diaspora: Beyond the Black Atlantic

This essay argues that despite the growing popularity of diasporastudies, our understanding of the African diaspora remains limitedby both the conceptual difficulties of defining what we meanby the diaspora in general, and the African diaspora in particular,and the analytical tendency to privilege the Atlantic, or ratherthe Anglophone, indeed the American branch of the African diaspora.It begins by trying to explore the various conceptions of theAfrican diaspora, foregrounded by a critique of Paul Gilroy'sinfluential text, The Black Atlantic. This is followed by discussionsof what the author considers to be the four dominant dimensionsof the global African diasporas, namely, the intra-Africa, IndianOcean, Mediterranean, and Atlantic diasporas. Finally, the essayexamines the emergence of the new global African diasporas.     

Feeding 13,000 Children a Day on the Rand

The following account of the work of the African Children'sFeeding Scheme in Johannesburg was given by Miss Ponsonby ata joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal EmpireSociety on January 3, 1957. Miss Marjorie Juta was in the Chair.     

Aviation in Africa

The following address by the adviser on African affairs to B.O.A.C.was given to a joint meeting of the Royal African Society andthe Royal Commonwealth Society on November 2, 1961. Mr. A. E.P. Robinson, High Commissioner for the Federation of Rhodesiaand Nyasaland and former chairman of Central African Airways,took the chair