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THIS great survey of the problems of Africa south of the Sahara carried out by Lord Hailey originated in a suggestion made by General Smuts in his Rhodes Lecture at Oxford in 1929, when he pointed out that Africa was developing under the control of a number of European powers, that different, and often conflicting principles were being applied in the administrative, social, educational and legal fields, but that nowhere was there any survey of what was taking place in Africa as a whole. His plea for a survey of the extent to which modern knowledge was being applied to African problems was met by the appointment of a committee consisting of Lord Lothian as chairman, Prof. Henry Clay, Prof. Reginald Coupland, Mr. Lionel Curtis, Sir Richard Gregory, Prof. Julian Huxley, Mr. Ivison Macadam, Dr. J. H. Oldham, Sir John Orr and Sir Arthur Salter, with Miss Hilda Matheson as secretary. The funds for the survey were chiefly provided by the Carnegie Trustees and later by the Rhodes Trust.
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An African Survey. Nature 142, 939–942 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142939a0
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