An African View of Indirect Rule in Africa

THERE is perhaps no administrative policy in Africa which arouses so little enthusiasm among Africans, especially educated Africans, as that of Indirect Rule. This attitude causes no little surprise and perhaps irritation among those who regard this policy as the high-water mark of the genius of British Administration in that it is based upon that common sense which recognises the fact that circumstances alter cases, that constant trial-and-error method, that steady evolution rather than sudden revolution for which the British