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Written by R.H. Hall, F.R.G.S Co-author with W.G. Neal of the “The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia” with an introduction by Professor A. H. Keane, LL., F.R.G.S. With two hundred illustrations,…
Published by Longman Group Limited London- Associated companies, branches and representatives throughout the world. ISBN: 0 582 22048 3 | Cased 0 582 22049 1 Paper Printed in Hong Kong…
Published in association with the Literature Bureau Longman Zimbabwe (Pvt) Limited Tourle Road, Ardbennie, Harare First published 1983 ISBN: 0 582 60996 8 Longman Zimbabwe would like to acknowledge the…
Written by Charles Bullock (Native Commissioner, and Examiner in Native Customs and Administrators, S. Rhodesia) Published by Juta & Co., Ltd. Cape Town & Johannesburg Publishing date: 1927 Category: Ethnography…
Archival Significance Written by Leonard T. Kapungu, a Zimbabwean scholar, published by Orbis Books, a US Catholic press associated with liberation theology and Global South political publishing, reflecting how Zimbabwean…
Archival Significance A 1936 periodical published in Bulawayo, this issue predates the Federation, UDI, and the liberation war by decades, offering a window into settler-press commentary on regional affairs in…
Archival Significance Cohen was Assistant Under-Secretary for the Colonial Office’s Africa Division and a principal architect of Britain’s post-war devolution policy, including the 1950 negotiations for the Federation of Rhodesia…
Archival Significance A Rhodesian government information pamphlet distributed abroad as part of an organised information effort. The item itself records that it was filed with the United States Department of…
Edited by R.S. Roberts and P.R. Warhurst Publisher The Journal of the Central Africa Historical Association Publishing date 1978 Category History Language English
Archival Significance
Ndabaningi Sithole’s foundational 1959 text, part autobiography and part political argument, published four years before he became the founding president of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) in 1963. Sithole went on to lead ZANU largely from prison between 1964 and 1974, and this remains one of the earliest published statements of Zimbabwean nationalist thought by a figure who became central to the liberation movement.