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Norman Leys
Norman Maclean Leys (1875 - 15 August 1944) was a British Africanist and critic of imperialism. He was described by his ''Manchester Guardian'' obituarist as "a fiery and determined prophet on colonial affairs, especially as he saw them in East Africa".〔'Obituary: Norman Leys', ''The Manchester Guardian'', 21 August 1944〕
==Life==
Norman Leys, born in Scotland, studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, where he specialized in obstetrics. He became a medical officer in Kenya in 1904, and remained in the colonial service in Africa for their next sixteen years. Leys, whose Christian Socialism informed his belief in racial equality,〔John Saville, 'Britain: Internationalism and the Labour Movement between the wars', in F. L. van Holthoon & Marcel van der Linden, eds., ''Internationalism in the labour movement, 1830-1940'', Vol. 2., p.572〕 became an outspoken critic of the way in which the arrival of white planters had impacted Africans.〔 ''Kenya'' (1924), with an introduction by Gilbert Murray, was reprinted in 1925 and 1926. Disappointed by the East African policies of the first and second Labour governments, Leys resigned from the Advisory Committee to the Labour Party in April 1931. In 1938, with Leonard Barnes and Julius Lewin, he founded a socialist journal, ''Empire'', subsequently taken over by the Fabian Colonial Bureau. In February 1939 Leys drafted a memorandum for the Labour Party arguing against the colour bar: the memo was incorporated into a draft by Leonard Woolf which became an official Labour Party document in 1943.〔
Leys died in Yalding, Kent on 15 August 1944.〔'Deaths', ''The Times'', 19 August 1944, p.1〕 His correspondence with J. H. Oldham was published in 1976.〔''By Kenya Possessed: the correspondence of Norman Leys and J.H. Oldham, 1918-1926'', University of Chicago Press, 1976. Edited and with an introduction by John W. Cell.〕
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