Archival Significance Edited by Elizabeth Colson and Max Gluckman, both major figures in the Manchester School of social anthropology and closely associated with the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, this edited collection is…
Archival Significance
A pioneering academic history of Barotseland’s political evolution and state formation, written by Mutumba Mainga, among the first Zambian women to complete a doctorate in history and a foundational figure in the historiography of the Lozi kingdom.
This book is the first in a series The Peoples of Southern Africa. Series editors: W.D. Hammond-Tooke and M. E. West Editor for this volume: M.E. West Grateful acknowledgements are…
Archival Significance
A children’s book set at Great Zimbabwe roughly 700 years before its own publication, written and illustrated by Meshack Asare, a Ghanaian author and illustrator recognised internationally for children’s literature grounded in African history and folklore.
Author Jonah Woods with a Foreward by J. Desmond Clark Publisher Stuart Manning, Bulawayo Publishing date 1960 Printed in the Union of South Africa by Cape Times Limited, Cape Town…
Archival Significance Issued in 1924 by the Beira and Mashonaland and Rhodesia Railways’ London office, this guide reflects the railway company’s direct commercial interest in promoting both tourism and settlement…
Produced for Central Africana by Resort Publishing Ltd Category Address Central Africana The Coach House Serpentine Road Sevenoaks TN13 3XP, Kent England Tel. 071 242 3131 (Evenings, 0732 461320) Fax…
Publisher Mambo Press Senga Road, P.O. Box 779, Gwelo 51 Stanley Avenue, P. Bag 6602, kopje, Salisbury Gokomere, P. Bag 9213, Fort Victoria Publishing date 1980 Originating Publisher: Heinemann, London,…
Archival Significance Edited by Sir Robert Tredgold, who served as Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia and then of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and briefly as Acting Governor-General of…
Archival Significance Part of the Pall Mall Library of African Affairs series, this history covers Malawi shortly after its 1964 independence, part of a wave of country-specific political histories produced…