Introduction, Alison Smith, Mary Bull; Chapter 1 Prologue, Roland Oliver; Chapter 2 Margery Perham’s Image of Africa, Cherry Gertzel; Chapter 3 Margery Perham’s Initiation into African Affairs, Deborah Lavin; Chapter 4 Forging a Relationship with the Colonial Administrative Service, 1921–1939, Anthony Kirk-Greene; Chapter 5 Margery Perham, Christian Missions and Indirect Rule, Andrew Porter; Chapter 6 Margery Perham and Africans and British Rule, Michael Twaddle; Chapter 7 Margery Perham’s The Government of Ethiopia, Edward Ollendorff; Chapter 8 Writing the Biography of Lord Lugard, Mary Bull; Chapter 9 The Coming of Independence in the Sudan, Wm. Roger Louis; Chapter 10 ‘Dear Mr Mboya’, Alison Smith; Chapter 11 Margery Perham and the Colonial Office, Kenneth Robinson; Chapter 12 Margery Perham and Broadcasting, Prudence Smith; Chapter 13 The Nigerian Civil War, Martin Dent; Chapter 14 Margery Perham and her Archive, Patricia Pugh;