Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings: Diplomatic and Administrative Service from Africa to the Pacific

Of Cargoes, Colonies and Kings gives an offbeat account of Andrew Stuart's wide-ranging experiences. Never a stereotypical colonialist, as the son of a missionary, he knew the people, the politicians and the kings of Uganda from his childhood and worked with them until 1965, four years after independence, when he joined the British Diplomatic Service.

As a diplomat, before ending up as British Ambassador to Finland, he was soon drawn back into the closing stages of the British Em…