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Oscar from Africa - Biography of O.F. Watkins (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Oscar from Africa - Biography of O.F. Watkins (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Oscar Watkins was a Bisley shot and a hockey "Blue" for Oxford
University; a cavalry trooper in the Boer War; a magistrate on the
Kenya Slave Courts which freed the slaves early in this century;
Commandant of the 400,000-strong Carrier Corps in the East Africa
Campaign in World War I; acting Kenya Chief Native Commissioner and
Provincial Commissioner; and the first editor of a Swahilli
newspaper which, under his editorship, gained the largest
circulation of any paper in Africa.
He strove unceasingly to protect the interests of the African
peoples. Resisting the pressures from European settlers for more
labour to be made available to work on their farms, and for more
land to be made available for European settlement, he found himself
on a collision course with the settlers and their fiery leader Lord
Delamere, and a Governor who was inclined to take their part.
This tribute to Oscar Watkins is written by his daughter.
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