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The article offers the author's opinion on the lack of a biography on Dame Margery Perham, who was an academic expert on British colonial administration. The author discusses Perham's accomplishments which include her work as a research consultant to Lord Hailey and his team on the African Survey project, her election of a Fellow of the British Academy and the first invited woman to give the British Broadcasting Corporation's Reith Lectures. Perham's books "West African Passages," and "Pacific Prelude," and the papers she left to Oxford University's Rhodes House are discussed.