…her appointment as a police magistrate came as a surprise to many because several years earlier in March 1934, she had brazenly confronted Dame Margery Perham at a public lecture on the subject of indirect rule. In the audience was the architect of indirect rule and military adventurist himself: Lord Frederick Lugard… We can only […]
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