Nicholas Westcott
Biographic Data
| ID | 1081862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Westcott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Westcott |
| SIGNATURE | WESTCOTT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal African Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Second Trump Administration’s Policy on Africa
Norman Leys and Settler Colonialism in Kenya, Colin Leys
Interpreting Africa
The continuous publication over 120 years of African Affairs, originally the Journal of the African Society, provides an invaluable source for charting Britain’s shifting perceptions of and interaction with Africa. Though limited, its readership included many of those most closely involved in Britain with studying and engaging with Africa during the 20th century. The journal charts a significant change: from an initial curiosity about Africa that…
The army and politics in Zimbabwe
These two books offer a striking contrast: each is excellent in its own way, but very different in approach—and both are essential reading for an understanding of contemporary Zimbabwe. Blessing-Miles Tendi's The army and politics in Zimbabwe is a largely oral history of Solomon Mujuru the man, warts and all, a person readers will come to know and understand, thereby illuminating the events of the time. Stephen Chan's Mugabe is a history of the t…
State failure in sub-Saharan Africa
This is a good book and deserves to be widely read. For the last three decades, a great deal of thought and effort has been put into trying to define what constitutes state failure, what causes it and how it can be overcome. Catherine Scott has made a substantive contribution to this debate in a book that illuminates both the theory and two practical examples of state failure, in Burundi and Uganda. The book has two parts: an extensive, even fore…
The Trump Administration’s Africa policy
In December 2018 the Trump Administration announced a new Africa strategy.1 This briefing examines US President Donald Trump’s personal views on Africa, which reveal his lack of interest in the continent, other than for its commercial potential; his Administration’s approach to Africa, which actually demonstrates a good deal of continuity with previous US policy under presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama; and examines the new …
Foreign policy in post-apartheid South Africa
This is a timely book on an important subject. South Africa is one of the three giants of the African continent—along with Nigeria and Egypt—and since the end of apartheid it has been finding a new voice and a new role in the world. This excellently edited collection of authoritative chapters by scholars and practitioners provides a comprehensive study of the issue. The book analyses South African foreign policy in a series of ‘concentric circles…
Africa and the world
This is a curate's egg of a book. Some of the chapters are excellent, but the whole is less than the sum of its parts. Selectively read, it provides some useful summaries, stimulating analyses and original interpretations. However, despite the efforts of the editors—who find an overarching theme in the fact that Africa is a victim of the impositions of other nations, other regions and other organizations—no coherent picture of Africans' approach …
Digital Diplomacy
British Imperial Economic Policy During the War
This chapter examines the extent to which both the principle of total war and the experience of the Second World War reduced colonial autonomy and centralised imperial economic policy around the entity of a British national economy. The argument here is that British centralisation was accentuated during the war as the British government deliberately tried to regulate the use of sterling for international payments. If the use of international mone…
The Impact of the Second World War on Tanganyika, 1939–49
'War', says Tristan Tzara in Tom Stoppard's play Travesties, 'is capitalism with the gloves off'. During the Second World War Tanganyika experienced colonialism with the gloves off.1 A sleepy imperial backwater, acquired late and held somewhat ambiguously under a Mandate, was transformed into an indispensible economic asset to Britain's war effort. For Africans it was a reminder of their subordination to a distant ruler and distant events. 'It is…
Agricultural Marketing Intervention in East Africa
The East African Sisal Industry, 1929–1949
Sisal growing spread rapidly in East Africa during the 1920s and 1930s to become one of the most important export crops in both Kenya and Tanganyika. The sisal industry nevertheless suffered severely from the low prices and erratic commodity markets which characterized the depression. Producers blamed the merchants and merchants blamed the market, but the sisal growers began increasingly to look for ways to bring marketing under their own control…
Closer Union and the future of East Africa, 1939–1948
An East African Radical
Erica Fiah's neglected life is a very valuable source of information on African political thought and action in colonial Tanganyika. His mission education imbued him with strong Christian values and a belief in British culture and civilization. Coming to Tanganyika from Buganda he was always rather alienated from the local society and culture, and was therefore inclined to seek a political and social community with educated Africans throughout th…
Economic Development and Urban Migration
An East African Radical
Erica Fiah's neglected life is a very valuable source of information on African political thought and action in colonial Tanganyika. His mission education imbued him with strong Christian values and a belief in British culture and civilization. Coming to Tanganyika from Buganda he was always rather alienated from the local society and culture, and was therefore inclined to seek a political and social community with educated Africans throughout th…
Closer Union and the future of East Africa, 1939–1948
The East African Sisal Industry, 1929–1949
Sisal growing spread rapidly in East Africa during the 1920s and 1930s to become one of the most important export crops in both Kenya and Tanganyika. The sisal industry nevertheless suffered severely from the low prices and erratic commodity markets which characterized the depression. Producers blamed the merchants and merchants blamed the market, but the sisal growers began increasingly to look for ways to bring marketing under their own control…
The Trump Administration’s Africa policy
In December 2018 the Trump Administration announced a new Africa strategy.1 This briefing examines US President Donald Trump’s personal views on Africa, which reveal his lack of interest in the continent, other than for its commercial potential; his Administration’s approach to Africa, which actually demonstrates a good deal of continuity with previous US policy under presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama; and examines the new …
Foreign policy in post-apartheid South Africa
This is a timely book on an important subject. South Africa is one of the three giants of the African continent—along with Nigeria and Egypt—and since the end of apartheid it has been finding a new voice and a new role in the world. This excellently edited collection of authoritative chapters by scholars and practitioners provides a comprehensive study of the issue. The book analyses South African foreign policy in a series of ‘concentric circles…
Africa and the world
This is a curate's egg of a book. Some of the chapters are excellent, but the whole is less than the sum of its parts. Selectively read, it provides some useful summaries, stimulating analyses and original interpretations. However, despite the efforts of the editors—who find an overarching theme in the fact that Africa is a victim of the impositions of other nations, other regions and other organizations—no coherent picture of Africans' approach …
Closer Union and the future of East Africa, 1939–1948
An East African Radical
Erica Fiah's neglected life is a very valuable source of information on African political thought and action in colonial Tanganyika. His mission education imbued him with strong Christian values and a belief in British culture and civilization. Coming to Tanganyika from Buganda he was always rather alienated from the local society and culture, and was therefore inclined to seek a political and social community with educated Africans throughout th…
Economic Development and Urban Migration
The East African Sisal Industry, 1929–1949
Sisal growing spread rapidly in East Africa during the 1920s and 1930s to become one of the most important export crops in both Kenya and Tanganyika. The sisal industry nevertheless suffered severely from the low prices and erratic commodity markets which characterized the depression. Producers blamed the merchants and merchants blamed the market, but the sisal growers began increasingly to look for ways to bring marketing under their own control…
British Imperial Economic Policy During the War
This chapter examines the extent to which both the principle of total war and the experience of the Second World War reduced colonial autonomy and centralised imperial economic policy around the entity of a British national economy. The argument here is that British centralisation was accentuated during the war as the British government deliberately tried to regulate the use of sterling for international payments. If the use of international mone…
The Impact of the Second World War on Tanganyika, 1939–49
'War', says Tristan Tzara in Tom Stoppard's play Travesties, 'is capitalism with the gloves off'. During the Second World War Tanganyika experienced colonialism with the gloves off.1 A sleepy imperial backwater, acquired late and held somewhat ambiguously under a Mandate, was transformed into an indispensible economic asset to Britain's war effort. For Africans it was a reminder of their subordination to a distant ruler and distant events. 'It is…
Agricultural Marketing Intervention in East Africa
Digital Diplomacy
Foreign policy in post-apartheid South Africa
This is a timely book on an important subject. South Africa is one of the three giants of the African continent—along with Nigeria and Egypt—and since the end of apartheid it has been finding a new voice and a new role in the world. This excellently edited collection of authoritative chapters by scholars and practitioners provides a comprehensive study of the issue. The book analyses South African foreign policy in a series of ‘concentric circles…
Africa and the world
This is a curate's egg of a book. Some of the chapters are excellent, but the whole is less than the sum of its parts. Selectively read, it provides some useful summaries, stimulating analyses and original interpretations. However, despite the efforts of the editors—who find an overarching theme in the fact that Africa is a victim of the impositions of other nations, other regions and other organizations—no coherent picture of Africans' approach …
State failure in sub-Saharan Africa
This is a good book and deserves to be widely read. For the last three decades, a great deal of thought and effort has been put into trying to define what constitutes state failure, what causes it and how it can be overcome. Catherine Scott has made a substantive contribution to this debate in a book that illuminates both the theory and two practical examples of state failure, in Burundi and Uganda. The book has two parts: an extensive, even fore…
The Trump Administration’s Africa policy
In December 2018 the Trump Administration announced a new Africa strategy.1 This briefing examines US President Donald Trump’s personal views on Africa, which reveal his lack of interest in the continent, other than for its commercial potential; his Administration’s approach to Africa, which actually demonstrates a good deal of continuity with previous US policy under presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama; and examines the new …
The army and politics in Zimbabwe
These two books offer a striking contrast: each is excellent in its own way, but very different in approach—and both are essential reading for an understanding of contemporary Zimbabwe. Blessing-Miles Tendi's The army and politics in Zimbabwe is a largely oral history of Solomon Mujuru the man, warts and all, a person readers will come to know and understand, thereby illuminating the events of the time. Stephen Chan's Mugabe is a history of the t…
Interpreting Africa
The continuous publication over 120 years of African Affairs, originally the Journal of the African Society, provides an invaluable source for charting Britain’s shifting perceptions of and interaction with Africa. Though limited, its readership included many of those most closely involved in Britain with studying and engaging with Africa during the 20th century. The journal charts a significant change: from an initial curiosity about Africa that…
The Second Trump Administration’s Policy on Africa
Norman Leys and Settler Colonialism in Kenya, Colin Leys
Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works)