Lugard Dual Mandate

METHODS OF RULING NATIVE RACES. IF continuity and decentralisation are, as I have said, the first and most important conditions in maintaining an effective administration, co-operation is the key – note of success in its application-continuous co-operation between every link in the chain, from the head of the administration to its most junior member, – co-operation between the Government and the commercial community, and, above all, between the provincial staff and the native rulers. Every individual adds his share not only to the accomplishment of the ideal, but to the ideal itself. Its principles are fashioned by his quota of experience, its results are achieved by his patient and loyal application of these principles, with as little interference as possible with native customs and modes of thought.