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Sir Alan Pim

British colonial official

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advice on southern African policy

  • Zambia
    In Zambia: Colonial rule

    …by a visiting financial expert, Sir Alan Pim. In a report to the Colonial Office, he urged more public investment in roads, schools, and health services, for Africans as well as whites. Missionaries ran many primary schools, but in 1942 only 35 Africans were receiving secondary education.

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