http://theleoafricanus.com/2009/06/04/the-royal-african-society/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://theleoafricanus.com/2009/06/04/the-royal-african-society/#comment-2767 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:16:41 +0000 http://theleoafricanus.com/?p=8085#comment-2767 I think Dowden is doing a good job in modernising the RAS. The origins of the society are late-Victorian (the idea was Mary Kingsleys). So it was never rooted in quite the same raid-and-trade mentality as the Royal Niger Company and Sir George Taubman Goldie, although Kingsley and Goldie were ‘friends’…

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