Frost, Richard Aylmer: Preface to 1997 edition by Bill Harvey: Race Against Time: Human relations and Politics in Kenya before Independence , Nairobi: Transafrica Press, 1997

First thus (first published by Rex Collings, 1978), paperback, 8.125” x 5.25” x , very good condition, illustrated glossy card covers lightly scuffed at edges, internally clean tight and bright, 292 pages, b/w photo frontis-----------'In 1947 the author was appointed by the British Council as its first Representative in East Africa with a brief to pay special attention to the improvement of race relations. After retirement he decided to write a book telling the story of human relations in Kenya in the years between the end of World War Two and the attainment of Independence, based on his own experience and documentary research in Kenya and Britain. He ended up at Oxford as an old age pensioner studying for a Doctorate. Race Against Time is the absorbing result and his unique standpoint and knowledge of race relations in Kenya in the late colonial period enables the book to throw new light on the background to the politics of that time.'Soft cover Book in VERY GOOD condition. Book Size: 8.125” x 5.25” x 0.625”. 292 pages. Two B/W Illustrations. ISBN: 0860360814. Pages clean. Tight binding. (Book ref. 2225)  £25.00

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