Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks
Colonial administrators
Executors and administrators
Translators
Verwaltung
Africa, history
Colonies
Administration
Congrès
History
As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that "a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African." Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in…
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