Interview of G.I.Jones by Alan Macfarlane 22nd April 1989

G.I.Jones (1905-1995) describes the training he received in languages before he became a Colonial Officer in southern Nigeria in the 1930's. This is a very short extract from a two hour interview in which G.I.Jones, a leading expert on West African art and history, who later became a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Cambridge, describes colonial life and anthropology between the 1930's and 1970's.

The interview was filmed by Sarah Harrison.