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On June 2, 1978, the Tanzanian government under President Julius Nyerere ordered the British multinational corporation, Lonrho Limited, to leave the country. The "official reason" provided for this action was Lonrho's "continued defiance of the United Nations mandatory sanctions against Rhodesia and the expansion of its business interests in South Africa." Using newly available materials, mainly from the National Archives London, this paper attempts to document the rise of Lonrho in Tanzania up until the nationalization, the factors that influenced the compensation negotiations process between Lonrho and the Tanzanian government, and the role the British government played in the entire episode.

Under the leadership of Tiny Rowland, Lonrho became the largest and most widely established company in post-independence Africa. Using newly available materials mainly from the National Archives London, this article investigates the activities of Lonrho in Africa and the company's relationship with the British government during the period. Although Prime Minister Edward Heath publicly labeled the company as the "unacceptable face of capitalism," evidence presented in this article suggests that this was at best a normative assertion. The subsequent Department of Trade and Industry investigation of Lonrho was carefully guided by the British government with the objective of protecting wider British interests in Africa. Evidence in this article therefore contradicts the view that the British government did not work "in concert" with British businesses in Africa once political independence became imminent.

Dieses ZEI Discussion Paper zeigt auf, dass der Prozess der Wirtschafts‐ und Währungsintegration in Westafrika stets maßgeblich von europäischen Entwicklungen abhängig war. Es verdeutlicht, wie die Veränderung der politischen Landkarte in Europa auch die Anreize der Interessenvertreter in der Region Westafrika verändert haben. Diese Entwicklungen eröffnen neue Möglichkeiten für ein Programm der Wirtschafts‐ und Währungsintegration in der ganzen Region. In diesem ZEI Discussion Paper wird argumentiert, dass die beste Art, das oben genannte Ziel zu erreichen, die schrittweise Aufnahme neuer Mitglieder aus der Zweiten Währungsunion, die schon seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt existiert, in die Westafrikanische Wirtschafts‐ und Währungsunion (WAEMU) sei. Außerdem plädiert dieses ZEI Discussion Paper dafür, dass die Europäische Union das obige Konzept unterstützt.

The Nigerian Enterprises Promotion Decree of 1972, which was promulgated in Nigeria after the country gained its independence from Britain, put in place a framework for the varied transfer of equity ownership of expatriate businesses to Nigerians. The decree was replaced by a more stringent order in 1977. Despite the extensive research on the Nigerian indigenization episode, there have been few studies on the role of the British government in the entire exercise. This paper, using newly available evidence from the National Archives London, investigates the role played by the British government during the indigenization episode. Evidence in this paper suggests that the British government explored various strategies, orthodox and unorthodox, in its bid to protect British business interests in Nigeria during the period.