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The Problem of White Settlement

Margery Perham considers the problem of the European colonists in her fourth lecture entitled 'The Problem of White Settlement'.

African affairs writer and lecturer Margery Perham discusses the effects of colonialism in tropical Africa. In 1939 she became the first female fellow of Nuffield College at Oxford University before being appointed as Director of the Oxford Institute of Colonial Studies in 1945. In her Reith series entitled 'The Colonial Reckoning', she highlights problems of colonial rule.

In this lecture entitled 'The Problem of White Settlement', she considers the problem of the European colonists, and the delicate question of race relations.

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30 minutes

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  • Thu 7 Dec 1961 09:00

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