H. T. Alexander: A British Officer Serving in a Newly Independent African Country

By Oliver Snaith, Archives Assistant, King’s College London Archives The Archive of Major-General Henry Templer Alexander (1911-1977), which consists of one box of original material and a copy of his published memoir African Tightrope: My Two Years as Nkrumah’s Chief of Staff, provides insights into the functioning of African states in the years immediately after …