The BBC and the Development of Broadcasting in British Colonial Africa, 1946-1956
Author(s)
Armour, Charles
Abstract
The upsurge of interest in wireless broadcasting in the colonial office in the late 1940s and early 1950s should be seen in the context of the new approach to Africa being formulated in the colonial office itself. Andrew Cohen, assistant under secretary in charge of the Africa section, has subsequently taken the limelight as the driving force among the officials drawing up the master plan for the co-coordinated political, economic and social development of the African colonies. His plan for the political evolution of the colonies called for economic, social and educational development on an unprecedented scale, and placed particular emphasis in the territories on local government, democratic and efficient.
