Editor's Notes
| Published date | 01 October 1958 |
| Date | 01 October 1958 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1958.tb01175.x |
JOURNAL
OF
AFRICAN
ADMINISTRATION
Volume
X.
Number
4 .
October
1958
Editor's Notes
THIS
number
of
the
Journal
contains
the
report
of
the
conference
of
central
and
local
government
officers which
met
at
Ndola
in
Northern
Rhodesia
in
February,
1958 to discuss
urban
administrative
problems in
East
and
Central
Africa.
Officers
came
from all British territories in
East
and
Central
Africa
and
from
the Colonial Office,
and
observers
attended
from
the
Federation
of
Rhodesia
and
Nyasaland,
Southern
Rhodesia,
Swaziland
and
the
Rhodes-Livingstone
Institute.
The
conference was held
under
the
chairmanship
of
Mr.
W. L.
Corell Barnes, the Assistant
Under-Secretary
of
State
in
charge
of
the
East
a?d
Central
African
Departments,
and
although
the
conference was specifically
directed towards problems in those
parts
of
Africa,
the
contents
and
conclusions
of its
report
have
a
wider
import
and
asignificance
and
application
in all
parts
of Afi·ica.
For
this reason we
have
decided to bring
the
report
to
the
notice
of
as
wide
an
audience
as possible
and
to achieve this by devoting
an
ordinary
number,
rather
than
aspecial
supplement,
of
the
Journal
to it.
This
year's
Cambridge
Summer
Conference
came
to a successful conclusion
On
Saturday,
September
6th.
As was
stated
in
the
April
number
of
the
Journal,
ｾｨ･
subject
of
the
conference was
once
again
local
government,
but
this
time
It
Was a review
of
progress
rather
than
a
blue-print
for
the
future. 1947 was
ｾ｡ｫ･ｮ
as
the
starting-date,
because it was in
that
year
that
Mr.
Creech
Jones
Issued his well-known
despatch
advocating
the
development
of
efficient local
government
on representative lines,
and
emphasizing
that
the fostering
of
such
development should be
regarded
as
one
of
the
main
tasks
of
the
administrative
service in Africa.
The
conference recorded
marked
progress towards this goal in most terri-
tories
and,
while
the
application
varies in
accordance
with
the
varying
con-
ditions,
the
broad
principles remain,
and
the
main
philosophy
behind
the
system
has
been
generally accepted. An
eloquent
description
of
the
philosophy
of
local
government
was given to
members
of
the
conference in a lecture by Professor
Wheare,
who
is well-known to Overseas Service officers
and
is now
Rector
of
Exeter College, Oxford.
In
alecture which
retained
its lightness
of
touch
to
the
:nd
he described
the
principles on which
the
English system
oflocal
government
ｾＮｨ｡ｳ･､Ｌ
and
drew
on his wide experience as a University
member
of
the
Oxford
Ity Council for seventeen years.
h
1-Ir.
I. :M. Eldridge,
who
has
been
editing
the
Journal
for
the
las, ' ,. Gyears,
N
as completed his period
of
secondment
at
the
Colonial Office
and
returns
to
n?rt?ern
Rhodesia
shortly. His place will be taken by
ｾＱｲＮ
A.
.J.
A. Douglas,
Istrrct Officer,
who
is on a two-year
secondment
from Basutoland.
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