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Forum: Africa

Feb 15th 2018, 9:42 pm

Replies: 21

Groundnuts Scheme

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Posted By scot47

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 !

Forum: Africa

Jul 22nd 2017, 6:51 am

Replies: 21

Groundnuts Scheme

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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.

Forum: Africa

Jul 20th 2017, 4:37 pm

Replies: 21

Groundnuts Scheme

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Posted By scot47

Re: Groundnuts Scheme

Of course not. What a strange idea !

Forum: Africa

Jul 20th 2017, 12:26 pm

Replies: 21

Groundnuts Scheme

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Posted By scot47

Re: Groundnuts Scheme

The Chinese Road to Capitalism is now under construction, comrades ! The East is no longer Red !

Forum: Africa

Jul 20th 2017, 12:17 pm

Replies: 21

Groundnuts Scheme

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Posted By scot47

Re: Groundnuts Scheme

Imperial folly did not end with the Groundnuts Scheme. It has continued to the present day in any number of ill-conceived plans for "Foreign Aid". I saw it in my line of work as the British Council...

Forum: Africa

Dec 4th 2016, 4:52 pm

Replies: 21

Groundnuts Scheme

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Posted By scot47

Re: Groundnuts Scheme

I plan to do that on Monday. All the excitement of a day trip to the large island that is close to Bute. I am reminded of the minsiter jere who regularly included in his prayers "the people of Bute...

Forum: Africa

Dec 4th 2016, 2:18 pm

Replies: 21

Groundnuts Scheme

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Posted By scot47

Re: Groundnuts Scheme

I will set to this as soon as I can recruit a female amanuensis who can take shorthand and prepare a drinkable cup of tea. Hard to find good staff these days.

Forum: Africa

Sep 16th 2016, 6:36 pm

Replies: 21

Groundnuts Scheme

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Re: Groundnuts Scheme

I was not admitted to the Upper Echelons that designed OSAS. Undoubtedly staffed by all those Colonial Office types who needed a new billet. You know - Gussie Ffistteleton-Twykes and his pals. The...

Forum: Africa

Sep 16th 2016, 5:54 pm

Replies: 21

Groundnuts Scheme

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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...

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