EDITOR'S NOTES
| Published date | 01 July 1954 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1954.tb00056.x |
| Date | 01 July 1954 |
JOURNAL
OF
AFRICAN
ADMINISTRATION
VOLUME
VI
NUMBER
3
JULY,
1954
EDITOR'S NOTES
THE first article in this number explains, in the words of Mr. Fox-Strangways,
the need for the transition from the old form of native administration to the
policy of local government, and the manner in which the Nyasaland Government
is putting into effect this new system.
Serving administrative
officers
of all territories will welcome D. J. Penwill's
timely and effective rebuttal of the accusation that is only too often levelled
against them. Incidentally in his picture of development in Machakos District
it is clear that at least this area is in little danger of saving its soil while losing
its
soul-a
state of affairs against which Sir Ralph Furse warned field officers
at the close of the 1949 African Summer Conference.
While on the subject of these conferences readers will be interested to hear
that discussion this year will cover the administrative problems caused by
industrial development and the growth of towns.
The
subject is complementary
to that discussed at last year's conference which dealt with rural economic
development.
We are grateful to Professor Mackenzie, Professor of Government in the
University of Manchester, for his informative article on the recent local
government legislation in Tanganyika.
D. J. R. Scott served for a few years as an administrative officer in the Gold
Coast before taking up University work under Professor Mackenzie at Man-
chester. As a result of spending four months recently in Yugoslavia he is able
to compare the administrative problems of these territories. It is curious how
Yugoslavia and the Gold Coast, though starting from opposite premises, have
reached much the same conclusions.
Mrs. Knowles, the author of the article on local government in Kenya, is the
wife of a district officer in S. Nyanza Province.
M. P. Banton, who writes on Tribal Headmen in Freetown, is a lecturer at
Edinburgh University. Under the auspices of the Nuffield Foundation he has
lately completed a study of urbanisation in Sierra Leone.
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