Oxford University Press

African Farmers in Rhodesia – Old and New Peasant Communities in Karangaland

1970s, IAI, Oxford University Press, Rhodesia

Archival Significance A detailed 1975 study comparing established and newly resettled peasant farming communities in Karangaland, examining agricultural and social organisation under changing colonial land policy. Institutional Context Published by…

Oxford Regional Economic Atlas of Africa

1960s, Geography, Maps, Oxford University Press

Archival Significance Billed as the first atlas to treat the entire African continent extensively within the Oxford Regional Economic Atlas series, which had previously covered the Middle East and North…

African Nationalism by Ndabaningi Sithole

1950s, African Nationalism, Oxford University Press, Rhodesia, Sithole

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.

Ethnographic Survey of Africa Edited by Darryl Forde | Peoples of the Lake Nyasa Regions by Mary Tew

1950s, Ethnography, IAI, Malawi, Mozambique, Nyasaland, Oxford University Press

Published by International African Institute By The Oxford University Press London New York Toronto Publishing date: 1950 Printed in Great Britain Category Ethnography Language: English Summary: This section is one…