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Long-form catalogue entries and archival commentary, listed in publish order. For faceted search across the full catalogue, use the Collection Explorer. For a curated starting point, see Featured Records.
Archival Significance A companion volume to the same author’s Shona: The Easiest and Quickest Way, this Ndebele-language instructional text reflects the post-independence demand for accessible language-learning materials covering both of…
Archival Significance Edited by Sir Robert Tredgold, who served as Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia and then of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and briefly as Acting Governor-General of…
Archival Significance Published in 1993, this is described as the first major book about the world of the Tonga people written for and with Tonga adults and children themselves, rather…
Archival Significance Published by the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, an organisation that provided legal and material support to opponents of apartheid and Rhodesian minority rule, this…
Archival Significance Written by Clement M. Doke, whose ethnographic study of the Lamba people is held elsewhere in this Archive, this account documents his missionary trekking through the region across…
Author Douglas Reed ISBN 086954 014 9 First published 1974 Publisher Macmillan South Africa Johannesburg. Associated companies in London, New York, Dublin, Melbourne and Madras. Printed by Cape and Transvaal…
Archival Significance Co-authored by Freedom Nyamubaya, one of the few female ZANLA field operations commanders during the liberation war and one of Zimbabwe’s most celebrated ‘guerrilla fighter-poets’, this Shona-titled collection,…
Archival Significance Written by Sir Kenneth Bradley, a British colonial administrator who served in Northern Rhodesia, this account documents the discovery of the Roan Antelope and Mufulira copper deposits that…
Second Edition (Revised) Edition, November 1988 Publisher Women’s Action Group Zimbabwe Thank you to the following people who have helped in producing this book: Frances Chinemana | Helen Jackson |…
Published by Longman Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd Tourle Road, Ardbennie Harare Associated companies, branches and representatives throughout the world First published 1987 ISBN 0 582 00927 8 Printed by Ort Enterprises…