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By a regrettable anomaly in our Association’s practice,* now removed, two distinguished historians who preceded me in this office — Roland Oliver and John Fage — were never called upon to deliver Presidential Addresses. So, with the exception of our first President (Dame Margery Perham) — whose historical writing achieves a distinction which few of us can hope to emulate, but who has been so much else besides — I find myself the first historian to discharge this duty. I feel somewhat as Lepidus must have done when invited to speak on behalf of the Triumvirate.
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Hargreaves, J.D. (1979). History: African and Contemporary. In: The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04178-7_7
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