MANDATES IN AFRICA
AIMS OF BRITISH RULE MEETING NATIVE NEEDS ATTENTION TO TRADITION (British Official Wireless.) Reed. noon. RUGBY, Sept. 20. Reports on the administration of Togoland and the Cameroons under the British mandate presented to the League Council at Geneva 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 detribalisation of the natives- and the destruction of all African atmosphere. It is stated that outside influences can quite easily destroy all the tribal institutions, and traditions, unless such are carefully fostered and grafted on to modem 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. They are 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.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19125, 21 September 1936, Page 5
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