No independence before majority rule

No independence before majority rule (abbreviated NIBMAR) was a policy adopted by the British government requiring the implementation of majority rule in a colony, rather than rule by the white colonial minority, before the empire granted independence to its colonies.[when?] It was sometimes reinterpreted by some commentators as no independence before majority African rule though this addition was not government policy.[1]

  1. ^ Ashton, S R; Roger-Louis, Wm (2004). "222: PREM 13/1751: letter from Joan Watson to RJ Dawe on the meaning of NIBMAR". East of Suez and the Commonwealth 1964–1971: Europe, Rhodesia, Commonwealth. British Documents on the End of Empire. Vol. Series A Vol 5 Part II. The Stationery Office. pp. 277–8. ISBN 9780112905837. Retrieved 17 January 2013.

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