Alfred Claud Hollis

Alfred Claud Hollis (1874-1961) entered the service of the British East Africa Protectorate, of whose administration he was secretary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and spent about ten years among the Maasai. He devoted a first book to their language and traditions, then a second to the Nandi, both printed at Oxford. He then pursued a colonial career in Sierra Leone, then as British Resident in Zanzibar from 1924 to 1929 and as governor of Trinidad and Tobago from 1930 to 1936.

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• NarrativeThe Masai: Their Language and FolkloreAlfred Claud Hollis · 1905Literature