Papers, 1895-1943.

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Papers, 1895-1943.

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Letters of Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, Baron Lugard (1858-1945), British soldier, administrator, and author, who had an important role in the expansion of British authority in East Africa and Nigeria. Letters concern a controversy in The London Times over a massacre committed by the Masai at Eldama Ravine, Kenya, in 1895; the Jameson Raid in the Transvaal; the slavery issue; a trip to Africa to exploit the British West Charterland Company's mineral concession in Ngami, Bechuanaland, with comments on the company's relationship to Joseph Chamberlain, the government and the British South Africa Company; difficulties in crossing the Kalahari Desert because of the environment and the war in Rhodesia; famine and cattle disease in Bechuanaland; the need to occupy leased territories in the Nile Valley; Lugard's administration in Nigeria; the situation in South Africa, 1900; the government's education policy in its African colonies; and personal matters.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6993872

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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