Table of Contents

1. The Genetic Inheritance 2. School Education 3. Farming in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties 4. Mother: May Louise Bowcock, née Parnell 5. Oxford 6. National Service 7. Learning Arabic 8. Khartoum Province Headquarters 9. Upper Nile Province: Western Nuer District 10. The View at the Time 11. Zeraf District: The Final Sudan Chapter 12. The End of the Sudan Condominium 13. Northern Rhodesia: Broken Hill Urban 14. Broken Hill Rural 15. Oxford Again 16. Mungwi Development Centre 17. Sesheke, Barotseland 18. Choma and the Judiciary 19. The Home Civil Service and the Law 20. Zimbabwe Independence Elections 21. Family and Retirement 22. Some Reflections Appendices Appendix 1 Western Nuer District: Monthly Diary, June 1953 Appendix 2 Journey to Nyalok Appendix 3 Zeraf District Annual Report, 1953-1954 Appendix 4 Zeraf District Handing Over Notes, 1954 Appendix 5 The Sudan Revisited, January 2006 Appendix 6 Return to Zambia: Thirty-Five Years On Appendix 8 Zimbabwe Election Supervisors’ Report

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Administrative officer’s account of final years of empire

About the Author

Philip Bowcock served in the Colonial Administrative Service in Sudan and Northern Rhodesia.