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The East Africa Royal Commission was a commission set up by the British government to review issues of economic development in British colonies across

British East Africa East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was an area in the African Great Lakes occupying roughly the same terrain as present-day Kenya from the Indian Ocean inland to the border with Uganda in the west. Controlled by Britai ...

. The Commission was established by Royal Warrant on 1 January 1953. It consisted of

Hugh Dow Sir Hugh Dow (8 May 1886 – 20 November 1978) was an Indian civil servant during the British Raj. He served as the Governor of Sindh. The Dow Medical College is named after him. Career Dow entered the Indian Civil Service in 1909 and served i ...

, Sally Herbert Frankel,

Arthur Gaitskell Sir Arthur Gaitskell (23 October 1900 – 8 November 1985) was an administrator in the British Empire. Family life He was born in Rangoon, Burma, British India, to Arthur Gaitskell (1870–1915), of the Indian Civil Service, and Adelaide Mary Ja ...

, Rowland Skeffington Hudson, Daniel Jack and Chief Kidaha Makwa. It focused on six issues # economic development through introduction of improved farming methods # reforming the traditional tribal systems of land tenure # making more land available for cultivation and settlement # finding suitable locations for industrial development # reviewing conditions of employment in industry, commerce, mining and plantation agriculture in relation to the growth of large urban populations # the social problems which arise form increased

urbanisation Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It is predominantly the ...

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