Governor Clifford addressed Lagos schoolchildren on Empire Day 1920 in terms of imperial loyalty and 'the trusteeship of the Crown'. Full text is held in the Colonial Office records (CO 583) at the National Archives, Kew, and excerpts appear in Clifford's collected speeches.
1920-05-24Empire Day address (colonial)Pending full text
Empire Day address to school children, Lagos
Sir Hugh Clifford — Lagos
Governor Clifford's Empire Day address to Lagos school children — a paradigmatic statement of late-Edwardian colonial pedagogy in West Africa, much-cited in the Macaulay-era nationalist response.
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Empire Day address to school children, Lagos
Sir Hugh Clifford · Lagos
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