Dan Jacobson’s novels include All for Love and The Confessions of Joseph Baisz.
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Vol. 21 No. 23 · 25 November 1999
pages 27-30 | 5524 words
‘Going Native’
Dan Jacobson on sexual favours in colonial East Africa
The recipient of the following letter was Sir James Hayes-Sadler, Governor of the East African Protectorate (soon to become known as the Colony of Kenya). Its author was a British settler writing from Nyeri, in the colony’s newly established ‘white highlands’. The year was 1908.
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Letters
Vol. 21 No. 24 · 9 December 1999
From Simon Currie
Dan Jacobson's article on sexual antics in East Africa at the start of the century (LRB, 25 November) is based exclusively on the documents in the Public Record Office and thus omits the fact that the moralising whistle-blower, Scoresby Routledge, feeling that the transgressor, Silberrad, had got off too lightly, went for the weapon of publicity by writing to the Times. This fact is to be found in Ronald Hyam's Empire and Sexuality (1990), a serious history but also an entertaining romp though what British colonials got up to – 'no bar sex or age or modesty or toilet training', as John Berryman of one erstwhile colony put it.
Simon Currie
Leeds
