Name ID 383
See also
Nelson, Christopher Photos of Arusha
Extract Date: 1955
Caroline Nelson with Lorraine with church sewing ladies.
When the Nelson family first came to Meu, Horace Mason helped connect my mother with social development work. Mason was the government social development officer.
See also
Cooke, J One White man in Black Africa
Page Number: 093
Extract Date: 1955
A star of the Social Development department of government was one Horace Mason, and he was called in to advise on extension methods. He had made a name for himself in work amongst the Wameru in Arusha district who had become disaffected (with good reason) by the alienation of part of their land to European farmers by the government, a major faux pas of the Twining era. Mason took a lot of credit for calming the Wameru and re-establishing normal conditions.
See also
Cooke, J One White man in Black Africa
Page Number: 130
on return from leave [to a posting at Bukoba, on the west side of Lake Victoria] I was instructed to report first to the Social Development department headquarters at Tengeru near Arusha. The head there was Horace Mason. I was to be instructed, or rather indoctrinated as the letter put it, in the philosophy and methodology of social developments enunciated by Mason, who had become something of a guru.
Indoctrination by Mason most certainly did not appeal to me. I am at heart a very English pragmatist, with a deep distrust of theories, dogmas and philosophies, and those who perpetrate and perpetuate them. ...
As I had surmised my three weeks there were a total waste of time, though it was pleasant enough living in Arusha in the shadow of the great mountain.
