Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa by Richard L. Roberts, Emily Lynn Osborn, Benjamin N. Lawrance
Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa

Richard L. Roberts, Emily Lynn Osborn, Benjamin N. Lawrance

Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa

Richard L. Roberts, Emily Lynn Osborn, Benjamin N. Lawrance

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As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that “a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African.” Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy ofte...

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