Introduction I TRANSFER OF POWER 1. The Transfer of Power: Why and How 2. The Colonial Past in the Present 3. Andrew Cohen and the Transfer of Power in Tropical Africa, 1940-1951 Ronald Robinson 4. Assumptions, Expectations and Plans: Approaches to Decolonisation in Sierra Leone John D. Hargreaves II ECONOMIC AND MILITARY RELATIONS 5. Some Aspects of the Economic Relationship between France and its Ex-colonies 6. Dependence, Independence and Interdependence in Economic Relations 7. Neither Partnership nor Dependence: Pre[1]decolonisation, Inertia, Diversification and Para-protectionism in Indo-British Relations since 1947 8. The Military Relations between Great Britain and Commonwealth Countries, with particular reference to the African Commonwealth Nations 9. Aid and Cooperation: French Official Attitudes as seen in the Jeanneney, Gorse and Abelin Reports III INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURES 10. Private Law in the New Francophone States 11. The Maghreb Response to French Institutional 'Transfers': problems of analysis 12. Factors of Dependence: Senegal and Kenya 13. Arabisation and French Culture in the Maghreb 14. La Francophonie with special reference to Educational Links and Language Problems IV INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 15. Bilateral Relations and World Diplomacy: Franco[1]African Relations on Trial at the UN.