Groundnuts Scheme
#16
Re: Groundnuts Scheme
In my 20s I remember flying out to Lusaka and sitting next to someone who had worked on the Groundnuts Scheme in Colonial Tanganyika. I have also over the years met many involved in the Central African Federation. Now when I look abck and think on my years in Africa on the ODA/OSAS programme I realise that I too am part of history and will soon be dead and forgotten - like all those on previous colonial and neo-colonial developments.
Should I write me memoirs ? It will soon be too late.
Overseas
Service
Aid
Scheme
= OSAS
was the Ministry of Overseas Development scheme that seconded British nationals to work in newly-indepedent Commonwealth states. I was in Zambia 1973-1977
Should I write me memoirs ? It will soon be too late.
Overseas
Service
Aid
Scheme
= OSAS
was the Ministry of Overseas Development scheme that seconded British nationals to work in newly-indepedent Commonwealth states. I was in Zambia 1973-1977
Memoirs are a very important part of recording historical events .
Please do.
#17
Re: Groundnuts Scheme
In my 20s I remember flying out to Lusaka and sitting next to someone who had worked on the Groundnuts Scheme in Colonial Tanganyika. I have also over the years met many involved in the Central African Federation. Now when I look abck and think on my years in Africa on the ODA/OSAS programme I realise that I too am part of history and will soon be dead and forgotten - like all those on previous colonial and neo-colonial developments.
Should I write me memoirs ? It will soon be too late. .....
Should I write me memoirs ? It will soon be too late. .....
#18
I still dont believe it..
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Re: Groundnuts Scheme
Write and they [well a few anyway] will come. I loved a similar i suspect book of the east india company, imagine being told on arrival to find a local girl for a housekeeper, and that sleeping with such a dictionary was the way to lern the lingo and customs...
#19
I still dont believe it..
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Re: Groundnuts Scheme
My father was in the scientific civil service so called, spent a number of years working with the FO on russian and chinese tech exchanges [anyone know about the vodka cola deal, or how pilkington came to supply nasa with glass for space use ?] before the iron curtain came down. The language was ripe to say the least, not normally written down but the descriptions i heard of african nation leaders were wonderously racist in todays terms.
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Re: Groundnuts Scheme
It might all be a bit before your time, but I mention it just in case. His name was Arthur Barlow
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Re: Groundnuts Scheme
Ah, Northern Rhodesia ! I got there 10 years after independence but the work of the colonialists was everywjere to be seen.
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Re: Groundnuts Scheme
My connection with Zambia continues, I am in regular touch with one of my grandaughters who is training to be a nurse at college in Lusaka. My name lives on !