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THE increasing tempo of development in Colonial territories, and also the urgent need for integrating their economy with that of Europe as a whole, have given added importance to published studies of Colonial administration. A recent one*, by Mr. Martin Wight, is the first study made of a Colonial legislative council in action, and has political as well as constitutional significance. Mr. Wight attempts to put the legislative council in its place against the life and society of one of the most progressive British dependencies in Africa. Beginning with a factual study of the history and practice of the legislative council over the twenty years from 1925, it affords a valuable introduction to the appraisal of the new constitution of 1946 in which the legislative council became the legislature for Ashanti as well as for the Gold Coast Colony, and was at the same time transformed into a representative legislature in which the official majority has been replaced by an unofficial, elected, African majority.
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Colonial Development and International Co-Operation. Nature 161, 371–373 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161371a0
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