Archival Significance
Full title Who’s Who 1980: African Nationalist Leaders in Zimbabwe, this is a revised edition of Diana Mitchell’s earlier African Nationalist Leaders in Rhodesia: Who’s Who, co-authored with Robert Cary in 1977, making it a rare contemporary biographical reference specifically tracking Zimbabwean nationalist political leadership across the transition to independence itself.
Institutional Context
Published by Books of Rhodesia Publishing Co., printed in Rhodesia by Cannon Press.
Content Summary
Provides biographical profiles of African nationalist leaders in Zimbabwe as of 1980, the year of independence.
Research Utility
A significant reference source for researchers of Zimbabwean nationalist political leadership, especially valuable for comparing its 1977 and 1980 editions to trace how the same reference work tracked leadership through the independence transition.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.