Symbol of Authority: The British District Officer in Africa

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In this book, Anthony Kirk-Greene, who served as a district officer in Nigeria for over a decade, draws upon personal memoirs, diaries, private and official papers, and his own experience, to paint a vivid picture of the service from his perspective. Symbol of Authority explores the socio-educational status of district officers, their recruitment and training, and what they did in both their work and leisure.

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""This is a wonderful book, a full and illuminating survey of the work of the District Officer in Africa but it also establishes the DO's mystique in political thought and literary imagination.""--Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas

Author Bio

Anthony Kirk-Greene was Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and was the author of Glimpses of Empire: a Corona Anthology (I.B.Tauris).