Archival Significance
Written by Patrick Keatley, a journalist who covered Central African affairs extensively, this Penguin paperback brought analysis of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland’s ‘partnership’ policy, and its practical failures, to a mass international readership across the UK, USA and Australia.
Institutional Context
Published by Penguin Books, reflecting how the Federation’s political troubles were significant enough to warrant mass-market international paperback treatment rather than remaining confined to specialist academic publishing.
Content Summary
Examines the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland’s policy of ‘partnership’ between its constituent territories and racial communities, and the political tensions underlying it.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of the Federation’s political history and of how its internal contradictions were explained to a general international readership at the time.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.