Archival Significance
Published for Zimbabwe’s tenth anniversary of independence, spanning exactly the century from the British South Africa Company’s 1890 occupation to 1990, this is a deliberately framed centenary retrospective rather than a work written contemporaneously with the events it covers.
Institutional Context
Published by David Burke Promotions, Harare, printed by NCR City Printer, reflecting commercial rather than academic or government sponsorship of the centenary commemoration.
Content Summary
Surveys Zimbabwean history across the full century from 1890 to 1990, from British South Africa Company occupation through to a decade of independence.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of how Zimbabwe’s own centenary was publicly commemorated and narrated in 1990, itself a data point in the country’s evolving public historical memory, rather than as a primary source for the events it covers.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.