Andrew Cohen (Governor)
Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen KCMG KCVO OBE (born October 7, 1909 in Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , † June 17, 1968 in London ) was a British undersecretary and the governor of the British colony of Uganda in the 1950s.
As Undersecretary for African Affairs of the Colonial Office , he was one of the leading participants in the formation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland from 1950 to 1953 . As an anti-racist and fighter for the rights of Africans, he worked to ensure that Rhodesia did not fall under a system that was closely related to the apartheid system in South Africa .
From 1952 to 1957 he was governor of Uganda. Among other things, he prepared the country economically for independence. He also ensured that an increasing number of black Africans came into political offices such as the seats in Lukiko . For the future of the colony, he envisaged an East African Federation consisting of Kenya , Tanzania and Uganda based on the model of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, but this was vehemently rejected by the Africans, as they feared the far more numerous white settlers in Kenya and Tanzania could form a racist minority government similar to Rhodesia.
When the separatist tendencies in the Ugandan state of Buganda grew stronger, the King of Buganda, Kabaka Mutesa II , was exiled by Cohen in London .
literature
- Ronald Robinson: Andrew Cohen and the Transfer of Power in Tropical Africa, 1940-1951.
- Andrew Cohen , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/1968 of August 26, 1968, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
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| SURNAME | Cohen, Andrew |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cohen, Andrew Benjamin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Undersecretary and Governor of the British Colony of Uganda in the 1950s |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th June 1968 |
| Place of death | London |