§ 6. Mr. K. Robinsonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what facilities are provided by the Governments of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland to enable Africans to qualify as specialists in housing and town planning.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe Royal Technical College, Nairobi, provides courses in architecture, civil engineering, and survey, and 14 Africans from Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika are at present attending these courses. In addition, Government bursaries are provided in all the East and Central African territories, to enable suitably qualified persons of any race to study these subjects in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. RobinsonIs it a fact that at a recent conference in Nairobi on housing and town planning not a single African was a delegate because, on the Secretary of State's own showing, no African was sufficiently qualified to take part? In view of that, is not it very important to press on with training Africans in this work?
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydI am all in favor of pressing on and we are doing all we possibly can, but the conference was a highly expert international conference. It takes not only training but experience to make a contribution to that, but I am hopeful about the future.