MANDATED TERRITORIES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 September 1936, Page 5

MANDATED TERRITORIES

TOGOLAND AND THE CAMEROONS REPORTS ON ADMINISTRATION (British Official Wireless) (Received 21st September, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, 20th September. Reports on the administration of Togoland and the Cameroons under the British mandate presented to the League Council contain a quantity of material of interest to anthropologists and students of native life. In the course of the report on Togoland, emphasis is laid on the principle that any policy which does not foster native institutions must result in the detribalisation of the natives and the destruction of all the African atmosphere. Outside influences can quite easily destroy all tribal institutions and traditions, unless they are carefully fostered and grafted on to modern organisation. The first principle of the Gold Coast Government; it is stated, has been to adopt for the purpose of local government institutions which the people themselves have evolved through the ages, modified where necessity demands it, but moulded so. that the people may develop on their own lines and stand in due course on their own feet.