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.     

The Problems of a Multi-Racial Society in Central Africa

The following address was given by the president of the NorthernRhodesia Mines African Staff Association at a joint meetingof the Royal African Society and the Royal Commonwealth Societyon July 23, 1958. Earl De La Warr, President of the Royal CommonwealthSociety, took the chair.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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 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.     

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.     

Ghana Since Independence

The address which follows was given by the High Commissionerfor Ghana at a Joint meeting of the Royal African Society andthe Royal Commonwealth Society on June 5th, 1958. Mr. BrianF. Macdona, Vice-Chairman of the Council of the Royal AfricanSociety, took 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.     

Rebuilding the Social Life of the Kikuyu

The following address was given by Dr. Shannon at a joint meetingof the Royal Empire Society on July 4, 1957. Lord Hailey, Chairmanof the Royal African Society, presided.     

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.     

Malaysia: the making of a grand design

Anthony Stockwell is Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was President of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2002–2003 and is currently a Vice-President. His publications include British Policy and Malay Politics during the Malayan Union Experiment (1979) and, as editor, British Documents on End of Empire: Malaya, 1942–1957 (three parts, 1995). He has been joint editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History since 1990. This is a version of a lecture delivered to the Royal Society for Asian Affairs on 26 February 2003.     

Unique Experiment in French Black Africa

The address that follows was given by the International Correspondentof "Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant" at a joint meeting of the RoyalAfrican Society and the Royal Commonwealth Society on November6, 1958. Earl De La Warr, president of the Royal CommonwealthSociety, took the chair.     

Tanganyika Triumph

The Commissioner for the East African Common Services Organisation,gave the following address at a joint meeting of the Royal AfricanSociety and the Royal Commonwealth Society on December 7, 1961.Col. Sir Charles Ponsonby, Bt., a Vice-President of the Society,took the chair.     

Eight Years of Transition in Ghana

Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, G.C.M.G., formarly Governor-Generalof Ghana, gave the address which follows at a joint meetingof the Royal African Society and the Royal Empire Society onNovember 21, 1957. Miss Margery Perham, C.B.E., presided.     

The Social Role of African Music

The well-known South African collector of indigenous music visitedBritain last autumn to collect funds for an international Africanmusic library to be organised by the African Music Society ofJohannesburg. In the course of this mission, which was successful,Mr. Tracey gave a lecture demonstration to members of the InternationalAfrican Institute, Royal Empire Society and Royal African Society.We reproduce the remarks he then made, with an indication ofthe music he played.     

The Legal Factor in a Changing Africa

The address which follows was given before a joint meeting ofthe Royal African Society and the Royal Empire Society on July22, 1955. The meeting was arranged to coincide with the Commonwealthand Empire Legal Conference, and Colonel Charles Ponson by,T.D., D.L., presided.     

After Independence in East Africa

This talk by the Director of the Overseas Development Institutewas given to a joint meeting of the Royal African Society andthe Royal Commonwealth Society on February 1, 1962. Sir JamesRobertson, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.B.E., took the chair.