If you’re from Nigeria or Hongkong, you probably know Frederick Lugard as the elder colonial statesman, who invented indirect rule. But long before he became those things, he was a poor and lovelorn ex-soldier wandering through Africa looking for the big break. Love and Empire. A broken heart drove Frederick Lugard into the British […]
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