§ 55. Mr. J. Johnsonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is aware that the only secondary schools in the Zanzibar Protectorate are in Zanzibar Town itself, and that there is no secondary school in the island of Pemba; and whether he will recommend to the Governor of Zanzibar that a new secondary school should be built in Pemba.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe Committee on Education, whose report was published last month, has recommended that a new double-stream secondary school should be built in Pemba. The report is now being considered in Zanzibar.
§ Mr. JohnsonWhile thanking the right hon. Gentleman for that reply, may I ask whether he would not agree also that a dangerous situation is developing in Zanzibar where Africans win all the elected seats in the Legislative Council but the Administration is almost wholly Arab? Is it not a very dangerous dichotomy and would it not be better to give the Africans a greater chance of education so that they can go into the Civil Service?
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydI am only too anxious that all who live in Zanzibar, whether Arab or African, regard it as their home, and anything that will help to that end I will naturally encourage.