Triumph or Tragedy? Rhodesia Zimbabwe
Archival Significance Written by Miles Hudson and published in 1981, the year after independence, this assessment of Rhodesia’s transition to Zimbabwe was written close enough to the events themselves that…
1980s
The Society of Malawi Journal
Archival Significance A scholarly periodical documenting Malawian history and natural science research. This issue, Volume XXXII, Number 2, July 1979, falls in the years of continued post-colonial consolidation under Hastings…
A Basic English-Shona Dictionary
Archival Significance Compiled by Desmond Dale, a Jesuit priest, through the same Literature Bureau and Mambo Press partnership responsible for a substantial share of Zimbabwean vernacular-language publishing held elsewhere in…
From Mission Field to Autonomous Church in Zimbabwe
Author W.J. van de Merwe, B.A., Ph.D. A publication of the Institute for Missiological Research (ISWEN), University of Pretoria Publisher N.G Kerkbookhandel Transvaal Publishing date 1981 Note Set in 10…
A library of Important books on Africa offered by Central Africana
Produced for Central Africana by Resort Publishing Ltd Category Address Central Africana The Coach House Serpentine Road Sevenoaks TN13 3XP, Kent England Tel. 071 242 3131 (Evenings, 0732 461320) Fax…
Soil Conservation
Author H.A. Elwell Senior Research Engineer Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Settlement Publisher The College Press (Pvt) Ltd P.O. box 3041 Harare Zimbabwe Series New direction in Education First…
Tobacco Spiced with Ginger – The Life of Ginger Freeman
Archival Significance A biography documenting the life of a figure involved in Rhodesia’s tobacco industry during the period of international sanctions imposed after UDI, when Rhodesian tobacco exports were formally…
Marx – Money – Christ An -illustrated introduction into Capitalism, Marxism and African Socialism – examined in the Light of the Gospel
Archival Significance The first title in Mambo Press’s Christianity and Socialism series, this illustrated primer was produced two years after Zimbabwean independence, when reconciling Christian belief with the new government’s…
Laboratory of Peace – The Story of Ken and Lilian Mew and of Ranche House College, Salisbury
Author Rowland Fothergill Publisher Louis Bolze Publishing 137A Rhodes Street P.O. Box FM 129, Famona, Bulawayo Zimbabwe Publishing date 1984 ISBNs Hardback edition 0 7974 0649 2 Limpback edition 0…
Technical Handbook No. 6 – A Field Guide to Soil and Site Description in Zimbabwe
Archival Significance A government technical manual standardising soil and site description methodology for Zimbabwean agricultural research, part of a numbered handbook series produced by the same ministry responsible for the…