Christian Church – Abantu Archives

The Witness of the Church in Zimbabwe

1980s, Church, Lovedale Press, Zimbabwe

Author W.J. van der Merwe Publisher Lovedale Press PO Lovedale 5702 Cape Province Republic of South Africa Publishing date First Edition 1982 ISBN 0 86986 084 4 Notes Set in…

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.