Writing revolt : an engagement with African nationalism, 1957-67

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Writing revolt : an engagement with African nationalism, 1957-67

Terence Ranger

Weaver Press , James Currey, c2013

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Writing revolt : an engagement with African nationalism

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-203) and index

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A deeply felt and engaging personal account of Zimbabwe's political awakening by one of its best-known historians. I did not set out for Rhodesia as a radical' writes Terence Ranger. This memoir of the years between 1957, when he first went to Southern Rhodesia, and 1967 when he published his first book, is both an intimate record of the African awakening which Ranger witnessed during those ten years, and of the process which led him to write Revolt in Southern Rhodesia. Intended as both history and as historiography, Writing Revolt is also about the ways in which politics and history interacted. The men with whom Ranger discussed Zimbabwean history were the leaders of African nationalism; his seminar papers were sent to prisons and into restricted areas. Both they and he were making political as well as intellectual discoveries. The book also includes a brief account of Ranger's life before he went to Africa. TERENCE RANGER was Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxfordand author of many books including Are we not also Men? (1995), Voices from the Rocks (1999) and Bulawayo Burning (2010), and co-editor of Violence and Memory (2000). Zimbabwe & Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Namibia): Weaver Press

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Preface 1929-57 A Very Ordinary Boy 1957 The University College of Rhodesia & Nyasaland 1958 The Southern Rhodesia African National Congress 1959 The Central African Emergencies 1960 The National Democratic Party 1961 Citizens Against the Colour Bar 1962 The Zimbabwe African People's Union 1963 and afterwards: Deportation, the Nationalist Split, Dar es Salaam and Writing Revolt Appendix of Names Select References

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