Fosbrooke, Henry A2021-11-092021-11-091977Fosbrooke, Henry A.(1977).African social researchhttp://41.86.178.5:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/16399Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr .Wilbert Changula Library( EAF FOS F78F7)The history of the five years from my take-over in March 1956 can be understood only against the social, economic and political background prevailing throughout the three component elements of the then existing Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, all of who supported the Institute and expected a share of its services. At that time ’ northern Rhodesia had a booming economy based on copper, a politically active white unofficial group seeking more and more say in the Colonial Office-controlled government and a social system based on a strict white-black dichotomy. This last manifested itself in such features as small serving hatches for African customers in the main shops in Cairo Road; menus with marked-up prices presented to African or mixed parties seeking to be served in restaurants to discourage their patronage; the Lusaka City Library ‘reserved for ratepayers’ when a Munali student sought to borrow a book, but no questions asked of a visiting European student; and miles of tarmac cycle paths to ensure the safety and comfort of European pupils cycling to their centrally heated schools whilst the Africans of Matero and Kalingalinga wallowed in muddy roads in the rains and inhaled clouds of dust in the dry season. In Southern Rhodesia, entrenched in its quasi-Dominion status since 1923, the dichotomy was even more marked, with hotels, park benches "and dwelling areas reserved for whites. This attitude was reflected more severely in the rural sphere, with half the land and the better half, at that reserved for European occupation. Nyasaland was a political and economic backwater, governed on typical paternalistic ‘colonial’ lines, the Governor being supported by an executive council overwhelmingly official with two unofficial Europeans and, needless to say, no Africans.enNyasalandRhodesianArticle