White Supremacy – Abantu Archives

The Colour Problem by Anthony H. Richard

1950s, Africa, Penguin Books, Race, Social Science

Preface A Study of colour prejudice, racial discrimination, and social separation, with an account of racial relations and the ‘colour-bar’ in Britain and the Commonwealth Territories in Africa and the…

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.