Editor's Notes
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1961.tb01273.x |
| Published date | 01 October 1961 |
| Date | 01 October 1961 |
JOURNAL
OF
AFRICAN
ADMINISTRATION
Volume
XIII .
Number
4 •
October
196/
Editor's Notes
OUR first article in this the last
iss~
of
the
.Journal
ofAfrican Administration
describes briefly
the
new
Department
of
Technical
Co-operation, the trans-
formation
of
the
African Studies Branch of
the
Colonial Office into
the
Admini-
strative Services Branch
of
the
new
Department,
and
the
imminent
birth
of
a
successor,
.Journal
of
Local
Administration
Overseas.
The
.Journal's
happy
event is expected to take place in
January
1962,
when
the
first issue will be published.
Apart
from
the
change
in title,
the
removal
of
the
map
of
Africa from
the
front cover,
and
the
fact
that
it will be published
for
the
Minister
of
State
for
Technical
Co-operation,
the
.Journal
of
Local
Administration
Overseas
will in all
other
respects
have
the
same
physical
appear-
ance
as the.JournalofAfricanAdministration. SUbscriptions
at
the
same
rate
should
continue
to be sent to
the
publishers .-
Her
Majesty's
Stationery
Office.
Subscribers will note, however, awidening in the scope
of
the
new.Jollrnal
which
will he
stated
in its aims
printed
on the inside
of
the front cover: these
will be to
provide
a
medium
for
the
exchange of information
about
administra-
tion
at
the
local level,
whether
in local
government
or in
the
local
organization
of
central
departments.
The
.Journal
if
Local
Administration
Overseas
will he edited in
the
Adminis-
trative
Services
Branch
of
the
Department
of
Technical
Co-operation
by
Mr.
B. V. Davies,
an
administrative
officer seconded from Fiji.
* * **•
African
cattle
farmers or ranchers
are
few
and
far between, for while
large
herds
may
be owned they
are
seldom
'turned
over'
for
gain
in
the
commercial
sense.
Great
progress has, however,
been
made
in
Kenya
in this direction,
and
Mr.
R.
O.
Hennings's
account
of
grazing
management
in
the
pastoral
areas
describes, in
the
main,
the
first phase
of
the
process.
The
second phase,
that
of
marketing,
is, as
the
author
says, a subject
about
which
awhole book
could
be written,
and
the
article does no
more
than
mention
the
main
problems.
"No
less
than
3,234 new houses were
built
and
4,031
renovated"
in
the
rural
areas
of
Kenya
during
1960 by self-help groups working on a
voluntary
basis.
Mr.
T.
G. Askwith's article
on
Self-Help
Housing
well illustrates
what
can
be
achieved by
communal
effort
when
the
people
are
encouraged
and
supported
by
the
administrators of
the
areas concerned.
Perhaps one
of
the
most
important
lessons to be
learnt
from
the
article
written
by
Mr.
A. C.
North
and
his colleagues on African Land
Tenure
Develop-
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