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Fallible Justice: The Dilemma Of The British In The Gold Coast, 1874-1944, Neal M. Goldman
Fallible Justice: The Dilemma Of The British In The Gold Coast, 1874-1944, Neal M. Goldman
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This dissertation studies the manner in which the British administered justice as a technique of colonial administration in one of its West African dependencies, the Gold Coast, during the first seventy years of formal colonial rule. In this study that covers the period from the creation of the Gold Coast Colony in 1874 to 1944, I argue that the British were caught between their honest desire to deliver prompt and fair justice to their Gold Coast subjects and their perceived need to support indigenous authorities through whom they wished to govern despite their recognition that those authorities were too often …