The Second World War forever altered the complexion of the British Empire. Africa in the late 1940s and 1950s was energized by the grant of independence to India. The British on the whole managed to disengage from Africa with minimum violence.

Peter Baxter is an author, amateur historian and heritage travel guide. Born in Kenya and educated in Zimbabwe, he has lived and traveled over much of southern and central Africa. Peter lives in Oregon, USA. His interests include British Imperial history in Africa and the East Africa campaign of the First World War in particular. He is the author of Pen and Sword's Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire.