THE CRISIS OF IMPERIALISM IN EAST AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE .

The colonial policy is bound to assume new aspects since a flew generation of natives has grown up which has been educated in schools by Europeans in ways of thought that are European, and in using devices introduced by Europeans. The word crisis may be understood with the particular implication that inherent in imperialism is the hybris, the overbearing insolence of the dominant stratum, or at least of some of its representatives, which by recoiling automatically and inescapably leads to its nemesis. Such, at least, was the idea prevalent in the Second Annual Conference on World Problems devoted to imperialism and held under the auspices of the Division of Social Sciences of Howard University, Washington D.C. Representatives of Africa, India and China discussed the crisis of imperialism with colored Americans, while white Americans and Europeans were also heard. It was the author's privilege, on this occasion, to present a paper relevant to conditions in East-Africa. From this conference his understanding of the current problems benefited more than from any reading he might has done. What follows will endeavor to balance the contradictory views brought forward. In order to do so people should try to look upon the phenomenon of imperialism and its implications as processes of natural history. This is the only scientific approach. Political propaganda is a thing apart.