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The Politics of Higher Education in a Colonial Setting The Controversial Sending of Abu Mayanja to King’s College, Cambridge, by Sir Andrew Cohen
A. B. K. Kasozi
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This paper argues that Sir Andrew Cohen, the governor of Uganda from 1952 to 1957, assisted Abu Mayanja in getting admitted on a scholarship to study at King's College, Cambridge, for colonial political reasons. Sir Cohen desired to implement the 1947 Colonial Office Plan to manage Africa with educated elites and eventually transfer power to them in an organized imperial exit out of Africa. However, World War II accelerated the process of decolonisation, making the planned exit a scramble out of Africa. As one of the chief architects of the decolonisation plans, Sir Cohen sought educated Africans to help him govern Uganda, but there were very few, because previous colonial administrations had discouraged the unrestricted provision of higher education to Africans. One of the alternatives open to him was to educate any capable African. Abu Mayanja was one of those, so he benefited from Sir Cohen’s efforts to create an educated elite to prepare Uganda for self-government. Despite resistance from some factions in the colonial administration, Sir Cohen supported Mayanja in pursuing advanced studies at King's College, Cambridge.
