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This book is the product of the interest and effort of many people who have been concerned with the trend of events in Central Africa, and with Britain's responsibilities there. In April 1959 over forty-five men and women - academics, missionaries, churchmen, journalists and others - met in Oxford for a private week-end conference on Central Africa, and generously gave their professional and personal knowledge to the discussion and criticism of the conference papers out of which this book has grown. Much of any final merit in it is due to them and while they are too numerous to mention individually we are parti cularly grateful to three, Mrs E. M. Chilver, Mr T. R. M. Creighton and Professor Max Gluckman, for joining us in call ing the April conference and for subsequent help and encouragement.While the chapters are the work of individual authors, the editors alone bear a general responsibility for the whole.