African Nationalism

His Own Oppressor by B. G. Paver

1950s, Federation, Peter Davies Limited, Rhodesia

With a Foreward by The RT. Hon. The Viscount Malvern C.H., K.C.M.G., F.R.C.S., M.P. Publishing Date 1958 Publisher Peter Davies Limited Printed in Great Britain for Peter Davies Limited by…

ZJC History Practice Book by T.K. Muronda and W. Ndoro

1980s, Education, History, Longmans Zimbabwe, Practice Book, Zimbabwe

Archival Significance

A school examination preparation text for the Zimbabwe Junior Certificate (ZJC), reflecting the postindependence growth of a Zimbabwean-authored educational publishing sector distinct from the colonial-era curriculum materials it replaced.

Race, Colour and Class in Southern Africa

1990s, SAPES, Social Science, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe

Archival Significance Published by SAPES Books, the publishing arm of the Southern African Political Economy Series Trust founded by Ibbo Mandaza, one of Zimbabwe’s most prominent post-independence political scientists and…

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.