My friend Lorna Richmond, who has died aged 96, worked for many years at the Africa Bureau in London, an independent body that co-operated with liberation movements to bring about an end to empire on that continent.
As assistant to the bureau’s maverick director, the Rev Michael Scott, an Anglican priest known for leading passive resistance demonstrations in a way that often ensured his arrest and imprisonment in various countries, Lorna kept the organisation running on the home front. The period of her full employment, from the 1950s to mid-60s, was arguably the busiest and most successful time in the bureau’s history.
