A PhD student from the USA has asked for advice - other than Jeff Greene,
whom else could he ask for help? Or for sources (I told him to go to the
National Archives, and ask Rhodes House and the Royal Af. Society)
I am a Phd student at the University of Wisconsin, and I am working on a
project about "Caribbean colonizers," people from the Caribbean who worked
for the French and British colonial administrations in Africa. I am also
interested in finding links between these colonizers and black intellectuals
and black internationalist organizations during the interwar years.
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I've been doing some searching in Gold Coast newspapers, and have found a
number of names of West Indian Police Superintendents, Sanitation
inspectors, customs officers, postmasters, etc. I have not found any strong
connections to black internationalist groups in London. So far the main lead
I have is John Alexander Barbour-James, a man from British Guiana who worked
as a postmaster in the Gold Coast, and then moved to London where he was
involved in the African Progress Union, and likely other movements. His wife
Edith Rita Goring seems to have followed a similar trajectory.
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