East Africa (Ormsby-Gore) Commission

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	East Africa Commission
Coverage	1925
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Olivier (1929)	Report of the East Africa Commission (Ormsby-Gore), Cmd. 2387, 1925	1924-1925	Quoted on alleged native idleness and land granted exceeding available labour; criticised and rebutted by the Kavirondo memorandum.
Sanderson (1961)	East Africa Commission report, Cd. 2387 of 1925	1925	Reports population decline 1921-23 attributed to migrancy and disease, with the author noting error margins.