Official Yearbook of Southern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia Central African Statistical Office Volume No. 4 – 1952 With statistics mainly up to 1950 Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Finance Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia: Rhodesian…
Colonialism
Zambia Shall be Free – An Autobiography
Archival Significance Written by Kenneth Kaunda before Zambian independence, using the still-current colonial name Northern Rhodesia at time of publication, this autobiography by the man who would become Zambia’s first…
Discovering Africa’s past by Davil Davidson
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…
The Mashona – The Indigenous Natives of S. Rhodesia
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…
Rhodesia the Struggle for Freedom by Leonard T. Kapungu
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…
African Observer – A Review of Contemporary Affairs Vol. V October 1936 No. 6
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…
British Policy in Changing Africa by Sir Andrew Cohen
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…
African Nationalism by Ndabaningi 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.
Documents on the Portuguese in Mozambique and Central Africa Vol. 1 (1497-1506)
(Documentos Sobre os Portugueses em Mocambque e na Africa Central 1497-1506) Published by The National Archives of Rhodesia and Nyasaland – Centro de Estudos Historicos Ultraminos Lisboa 1962 Category History…
Origins of Rhodesia by Stanlake Samkange
Archival Significance Samkange was a founding figure of Zimbabwean nationalist historiography and the first prominent Black Zimbabwean historian to publish a major English-language account of the 1889-90 BSAC invasion of…