Oxford University Press – Abantu Archives

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.