Following IMF directives, President Joyce Banda reaps international praise, but poverty and protests persist by Elliot Ross The historian Dame Margery Perham was a major architect of the British colonial technique of indirect rule. “The great gap between the culture of rulers and ruled” was “the basic difficulty” with this method, she wrote. “People do not understand what we want them to do … or, if they understand, do not want to do it.” The solution, according to Dame Margery, was “to instruct the leaders of the people in the objects of our policy, in the hope that they will,…
