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The New African Administrator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

A. H. M. Kirk-Greene
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A full decade of African administration by Africans has gone by. It will soon be time to examine their achievements and to formulate and explore a number of new questions. What was Africanisation all about? Was it anything more than a localisation of personnel? Have Whitehall attitudes been replaced by Nigerian or Tanzanian, or even African attitudes? Has a newly shaped philosophy of public administration emerged?

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Review Article
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , May 1972 , pp. 93 - 107
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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page 95 note 1 Cf. Kirk-Greene, A. H. M., ‘Administrative Training in Africa: the Northern Nigeria experience and beyond’, in International Review of Administrative Sciences (Brussels), xxxv, 1, 1969, pp. 1–15.Google Scholar

page 95 note 2 Similar stiffneckedness by a jeunesse dorée enforced the abandonment of a much-needed ‘mature-student scheme’ at the very institution which had pioneered the study of public administration up to degree standard in tropical Africa; The Times (London), 28 February 1967. In the event, as the needs of some of the Northern States in post-1968 Nigeria have shown, it has been necessary to return to similar principles of accelerated training and ‘crash’ courses that were the inspiration in 1957.

page 96 note 1 Cf. ‘Anxious Administrators’, in West Africa (London), 25 March 1967.

page 99 note 1 Cf. Kirk-Greene, A. H. M., ‘Some Problems of the African Administrator in the Field Today’, in African Affairs (London), LXVI, 265, 10 1967, p. 323.Google Scholar

page 101 note 1 While this is the title on the cover of the 1962 report, and so used for bibliographical reference, the original programme of the seminar was headed ‘Some Aspects of Staffing Policy in Developing Countries of Africa’.