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Ric Swift, the founder of the UK Wildlife Film School, plans to relocate his school to Africa and his Land Rover One Ten is an essential part of his plans. The vehicle is equipped with a large roof rack and a platform on the bonnet for easy access. It is used to transport film equipment, camping gear, and food for the students during their wildlife film courses in Scotland. Ric aims to take the school to Tanzania, but is also considering Botswana as an alternative due to import tax issues. He values the reliability and familiarity of his Land Rover for the long journey. [Extracted from the article]

This article discusses the new plan of British Colonial Office for changing the political make-up of another sizable part of the British colonies. Following the pattern which has changed colonies into dominions, the new White Paper will outline plans for uniting three of the large, land-locked British "protectorates" in South-Central Africa into a larger federated union which will be expected eventually to assume an autonomous role. The African natives, however, see the plan mainly as a method by which the White settlers in this part of Africa could freeze White supremacy into the culture of all three territories. The natives prefer their territories to remain wards of Great Britain's Colonial Office in their present status as British protectorates.

The article discusses the decline in scientific innovation in Africa. Africa's share of world science have been declining and bibliometric studies show that sub-Saharan Africa's share of world scientific papers dropped from one percent to 0.7 percent in 1996. Many of the scientific institutions are fragile and susceptible to the vagaries of political and military events and suffer because of lack of clarity and articulation of science governance issues. The British model of colonial science led to the establishment of botanical gardens in many colonies as sites to conduct plant and other related research. The French approach to colonial science was different. Research had to be done through the mediation of institutions based in Paris.

The article discusses British attitudes toward slavery, bondage, and oppression following the abolition of slavery in the West Indies after 1833. It considers Victorian attitudes toward race, empire, and civilsation and explores comparisons between New World slavery and conditions of British industrial workers. The author reflects on debates over how to emancipate slaves, Britons' consumption of goods produced by slaves, and attitudes toward servitude and domestic slavery in Africa, especially in the Gold Coast colony.

The article discusses attempts to establish a Jewish colony in the Portuguese colony of Angola in the early twentieth century. It examines the leadership of Anglo-Jewish author Israel Zangwill and his organization the international Jewish Territorial Organization, known as the ITO. The author considers the views of the British Foreign Office and the relationship between ITOism and Zionism. Individuals discussed include explorer and scientist John Walter Gregory, Russian jurist Jacob Teitel, and British minister to Portugal Sir Arthur Hardinge.

The puppet regimes in the countries which are not entirely occupied by the German armies have been assigned other more important tasks. They serve as barriers and obstacles to the freedom of action of the Allies. Nobody will doubt that if it had been possible for Great Britain, taking advantage of the first ten weeks of Russian resistance, to strike in the west, Hitler would have been caught in a dangerous impasse. It may be that reasons of a strictly military character have excluded an offensive for instance, in North Africa.

The issue of austerity has become focal to the African political scene It calls to mind the early days of the British Labor movement, which drew on strong nonconformist sources and bitterly criticized any leader who compromised with the fleshly temptations of the capitalist world. African states are now becoming divided into two categories those which try to enforce austerity from the top, and those which believe that leaders have the right to enjoy the sweets of office, as their colonial masters did before them. This has become much more serious than a social argument in French-speaking Africa, governments have fallen, on the one hand when they have tried to enforce salary cuts on civil servants, on the other when the masses have become infuriated by the ostentation of their leaders.

The article presents information on Great Britain Colonial Office's mission in colonial Africa to increase output of raw materials in African colonies. Under the mission, British and colonial governments are working with private enterprises to invest more than 1 billion dollars into Britain's 11 African colonies during the next 10 years.

This article focuses on the colonial empires of Western European Allies. The empire now consists largely of the British sections of Africa. Four-fifths of Britain's seventy million remaining colonial peoples live there. Its importance is further emphasized by the fact that the rest of Britain's colonies consist largely of islands and coastal settlements scattered broadcast over the world's seaways. Those in the Caribbean area are within sight of self-governing status. Those in South-East Asia may at any time be engulfed by the rising tide of Communism.

The article presents an interview with Myles Wickstead, head of the secretariat to the Great Britain Commission for Africa. Wickstead said, Africa is showing signs of real progress and renewal. Some of the elements of this are the formation of the African Union, the construction of the African Peer Review Mechanism and the development of real poverty reduction strategies. He further said, there needs to be a massive renewal of interest in and support for Africa. He added, the Commission for Africa's recommendations must not be seen as a massive handout by the international community; one must recognise the effort Africa is making to renew itself.

The article focuses on the paper "Defoe and the Politics of Representing the African Interior," by Peter Know-Shaw. Drawing on ancient myths about Africa as well as reports from the Royal African Company, author Daniel Defoe blended fact and fiction in an effort to mediate his own conflicting views about slavery in his novel. At the same time, Defoe was committed to raising the wages of the English laboring poor, which, according to the mercantilist economics of the time, could only be done by increasing the triangular trade between Great Britain, Africa, and the colonies.

Reports that Irish Africa campaigner and rock musician Bob Geldof has persuaded British Prime Minister Tony Blair to set up a commission on Africa to coincide with Great Britain's chairing of the Group of Eight industrial countries and its presidency of the European Union in 2005. Presentation of papers to the Commission by renowned economists and political scientists with the aim of compiling as hard-hitting a report as that produced by German chancellor Willy Brandt's Commission on Third World Development in 1980; Objectives of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals.

The article explores the significance of William Fitzwilliam Owen, a former member of Great Britain's Royal Navy, in ending transatlantic slave trafficking. Owen, a surveyor, was asked by the Admiralty to create charts of the African coastline. From 1822 to 1826, Owen surveyed the African coast. Owen believed that accurate charts of the coastline would guide the Navy's patrols and help in ending the slave trade. Despite the presence of the Royal Navy, slave trafficking continued until a mixture of diplomacy and annexation was implemented in 1870 in the Atlantic and 1920 in the Indian Ocean. INSET: Freetown and Fernando Po.

Focuses on several social and economic issues around the world. Analysis of charity in Great Britain tackled in the winter 2000 issue of `LSE Magazine'; Educational infrastructure and modernity in Africa discussed in the winter 2000/2001 issue of `African Geopolitics'; Criticisms on the working scheme and employment in France discussed in the winter 2000/2001 issue of `Commentaire.'

The nine chapters of this theme issue show how, in diverse cultural settings, cooperative learning methods enhance learning and reduce frictions among learners. A second goal of these papers is to indicate how cooperative learning fits or doesn't fit in several societies. (SLD)

The article discusses Great Britain's proposal to revive unification in Central African states. With the increase of anti-British sentiment, observers note that the idea of creating a federation composed of South and North Rhodesia, and Nyasaland hopes to maintain Great Britain's close economic and political association under a federal constitution and government. British officials acknowledge the economic advantages involved in the federation, and its potential to develop the mining and agricultural industries in the region.

The article presents information on an eco-friendly pesticide, and public consultation on dealing with nuclear waste. Cheap eco-friendly alternatives to pesticides are much needed and greatly to be encouraged. The recent biopesticide research at the University of Greenwich aims to control plagues of the African army worm caterpillar in countries such as Tanzania through the use of nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPVs). Great Britain is actively engaged on NPV research, to the tune of £1 million so far, with countries such as Thailand, India and Kenya as its partners.

Comments on several political developments in Africa. Description of the European policies towards Africa; View that a nation so deeply divided as Nigeria by race, religion and history can be united by one means only, namely conquest; Comments on the attitudes of different countries towards Nigeria; Description of the consequences of the end of British rule in Nigeria; Details of British involvement in various other countries of Africa.

Presents a political update on Africa and Europe. Appreciation of the statement given by Greece and Turkey regarding resolution of the Cyprus problem; Insight into the reservations of Great Britain when it comes to resolution of the Cyprus problem; Comment on the escalation of insurgencies in various parts of Africa; View that the rapidly worsening situation in Africa deserves more notice than it has received.