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Abstract
Early in the twentieth century, a Governor of the Gold Coast colony in West Africa circulated a minute to his staff. Such minutes were not unusual, and could cover any subject. This one, however, is memorable, for it dealt not with the minutiae of imperial administration but with a more difficult question: namely, how the agent of empire was to behave towards the subjects he ruled:
Recommended Citation
O'Leary, John, ‘Out here to be pleasant’: Mister Johnson and the rhetoric of niceness, Kunapipi, 26(2), 2004.
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