Retreat from Empire

Sir Robert Armitage in Africa and Cyprus

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Colin Baker

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Using private papers, government records and interviews and correspondence with politicians and a large number of officers who served with him in Africa and Cyprus, Professor Baker carefully and sensitively traces Robert Armitage's colonial service career. He served in four colonies and Baker meticulously follows Armitage's career in each. In Kenya, as a district officer Armitage outstandingly set up the massive Isiolo refugee camp and as a secretariat officer his onerous finance work stood Kenya, and his own future, in good stead. As Nkrumah's finance minister he conscientiously helped the Gold Coast's rapid progress to independence. He was Governor of Cyprus when violence broke out and attempts were made on his life in 1955, and Governor of Nyasaland during the Central Africa Federation's middle years and the 1959 state of emergency. Baker examines Armitage's dealings with those responsible for colonial policy and changes in it - Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Home, Perth, Amery, Lennox-Boyd and Macleod - and the conflicts which resulted.

Author Biography:

Colin Baker is an historian of Nyasaland and Malawi. He has written widely in his field, including Development Governor and Seeds of Trouble (both I.B.Tauris).

Release date NZ

February 25th, 2021

Author

Colin Baker

Pages

432

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

ISBN-13

9781350182974

Product ID

33368338

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