Dame Margery Freda Perham DCMG CBE FBA (6 September 1895 – 19 February 1982) was a British historian of, and writer on, African affairs. She was known especially for the intellectual force of her arguments in favor of British decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s.
Books in order of publication:
African Apprenticeship – 1929
Ten Africans – 1936
The Government Of Ethiopia – 1948
Lugard: The Years of Adventure, 1858-1898 – 1956
Lugard: The Years of Authority 1898-1945 – 1960
The Colonial Reckoning The Reith Lectures 1961 – 1963
Colonial Sequence – 1967
Major Dane’s Garden 1971
West African Passage: A Journey Through Nigeria, Chad, and the Cameroons, 1931-1932 – 1983
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