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  • Essays on the Political Economy of Africa Essays on the Political Economy of Africa
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    Essays on the Political Economy of Africa

    These essays, by two of the foremost scholars who worked in the Marxist tradition on African economic and social issues, offers an overview of socialism and economic development, and of nationalism...
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  • Two Suitcases Two Suitcases
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    Two Suitcases

    European settlers in colonial Africa did not have an easy time, depending on what they came with. Theirs’ was a life of adventure, hardship, homesickness, disease and sometimes, war. The...
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  • Marriage, Perversion, and Power
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    Marriage, Perversion, and Power

    This is the first scholarly study of African marriage relationships in Southern Rhodesia during the early twentieth century. It is a highly original and cogently argued history of sexuality and...
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  • Squares in a Grooved Circle Squares in a Grooved Circle
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    Squares in a Grooved Circle

    This romantic novel is set in Lusaka during the turbulent months before Northern Rhodesia gained independence as Zambia in 1964. Beryl goes to join her husband, Henry, who works there. She has been...
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  • Mine to Remember Mine to Remember
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    Mine to Remember

    MINE TO REMEMBER is a story of deep love and great tragedy set in the short life of Rhodesia, from 1890 to 1980.  The changing history of the country unfolds through the lives of the different...
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  • Settlers at the end of empire
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    Settlers at the end of empire

    Settlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom from the Second World War to the end of...
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  • Tarcisius Malan George Silundika Tarcisius Malan George Silundika
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    Tarcisius Malan George Silundika

    This is a previously untold story of a man widely regarded as one of the chief icons of the struggle against British colonial rule in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Tarcisius George Silundika, known in his...
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  • Alaska Flying Alaska Flying
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    Alaska Flying

    ALASKA FLYING: Surviving Incidents and Accidents encompass many short stories about Jake's experiences gained from 1967 to the present as a pilot in Alaska. Though he logged time as pilot in command...
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  • What happened to Friday? What happened to Friday?
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    What happened to Friday?

    'What happened to Friday?' is a humourous, serious, sexy, shocking look at the author's life from very early childhood to the current day. It explores his coming of age, school antics, service in the...
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  • Bulawayo Boy Bulawayo Boy
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    Bulawayo Boy

    A humorous memoir of a young life in colonial Africa, with occasional interludes of sombre reflection by this son of German Jewish refugees. Set in Rhodesia in the 1950s and early 1960s, the author...
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  • A Brutal State of Affairs A Brutal State of Affairs
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    A Brutal State of Affairs

    A Brutal State of Affairs analyses the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe and challenges Rhodesian mythology. The story of the BSAP, where white and black officers were forced into a situation not...
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  • The Great Trek North The Great Trek North
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    The Great Trek North

    This book follows the journey of two Huguenot families escaping persecution in France to the Cape Colony in Africa. It is set in the period from the mid-1600s to the late 1900s.Following the loss by...
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  • Cry of the Fish Eagle Cry of the Fish Eagle
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    Cry of the Fish Eagle

    "There's a saying. Hear the cry of the fish eagle and you'll always come back. Bush fever. Call it what you will. That sound is the most beautiful sound on earth. It's worse than booze or drugs...
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  • Memoirs of a Rhodie / Zimbo / Aussie Memoirs of a Rhodie / Zimbo / Aussie
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    Memoirs of a Rhodie / Zimbo / Aussie

    A selection of thirty-six short stories from the journals of a time spent in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe and Australia.Call me a Rhodie, a Zimbo or an Aussie and you'll get the same person - someone who will...
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  • Black Mamba White Settler Black Mamba White Settler
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    Black Mamba White Settler

    This moving, action-packed story based on the authors life is of betrayal, war, hate and vengeance. And of loyalty, love and friendship. Farmers and their families and workers after the horrors of...
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  • Cry My Country Cry My Country
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    Cry My Country

    Born on the same day twenty-five years ago, Daniel and Agnus have known each other all of their lives. Angus is white, and Daniel is black. To them, it means nothing, but to others it means...
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  • Across the Wide Zambezi Across the Wide Zambezi
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    Across the Wide Zambezi

    A British GP, 39, unmarried sees advert in The British Medical Journal for a medical officer in West Africa. At the London office finds he is the only applicant. Flies out to Ghana, where he finds he...
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  • Towards a True Christian Manliness Towards a True Christian Manliness
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    Towards a True Christian Manliness

    The Boys' Brigade arrived in Southern Rhodesia in 1948, with initial efforts being very localised. Momentum increased with the influx of post war immigrants from Britain and South Africa. By the...
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  • Solomon's Prayer Solomon's Prayer
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    Solomon's Prayer

    In 1955, when six-year-old Christopher Devereau arrives in Rhodesia after spending his early childhood in the New Forest, he is ill prepared for the harsh regime for children. Based on the author's...
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  • Nature and Child's Life Experiences Nature and Child's Life Experiences
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    Nature and Child's Life Experiences

    In this book, Rhodesia's poems show the experiences, feelings, desires,dreams, and wishes of a child, as narrated from her unique perspectiveand language. It also explores a child's questions and...
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  • The White House and White Africa The White House and White Africa
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    The White House and White Africa

    This book offers an insightful analysis of presidential policy towards Rhodesia during the UDI era of 1965-1979. Michel provides an informative account of the stance adopted by the differing...
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    The Island of Sheep
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    The Island of Sheep

    The Island of Sheep is the fifth, last and most unusual of the Hannay books. Having returned once again to a quiet life at Fosse Manor, Hannay's life is shaken a final time when the son of an old...
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  • The Lucky Pigeon
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    The Lucky Pigeon

    On April 29, 1940, the governments of Canada, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand got together in Ottawa to sign an agreement implementing the "British Commonwealth Air Training Plan". Shortly...
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  • Harvest of Fear Harvest of Fear
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    Harvest of Fear

    Harvest of Fear is a gripping historical novel that brings to life a family, a farm, and a racial war - in Africa. Johan Steenkamp brings ardent, impetuous Marie home to his flourishing farm in...
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  • Before the Rise of the Modern Copperbelt Before the Rise of the Modern Copperbelt
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    Before the Rise of the Modern Copperbelt

    In Zambia, the history of industrial and commercial mining is over 115 years. The earlier period, from 1900 to 1920, is least known. It is ignored, passed over, or referred to in passing by academics...
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    When the African Bus Came Down

    With only their wit and a dream, the Bosman family set out from a sophisticated city life in South Africa to build a photographic safari lodge in a wilderness area in Rhodesia. They were 90 miles...
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  • The Long Shadow of the British Empire The Long Shadow of the British Empire
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    The Long Shadow of the British Empire

    The Long Shadow of the British Empire explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, and the associations they...
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  • Copper Empire Copper Empire
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    Copper Empire

    This is a study of the evolving relationship between the British colonial state and the copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia, from the early stages of development to decolonization,...
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  • Heartful Heartful
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    Heartful

    "I know one day there may be pain,I may be old, alone, and frail,I'll smile and say, "Bring on the rain,"Whenever I open my Jar of Joy,I've got enough sunshine to make rainbows."In this second volume...
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  • Dr. Jameson (1908) Dr. Jameson (1908)
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    Dr. Jameson (1908)

    Dr. Jameson is a book written by George Seymour Fort and published in 1908. The book chronicles the life and career of Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, a British colonial statesman and physician who played...
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  • An Everyday Hero An Everyday Hero
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    An Everyday Hero

    Ken Cockram was a fighter/bomber pilot in the famous 112 'Shark' Squadron RAF during WWII.After signing-up in 1941 he was posted to Rhodesia for his pilot training and he went on to see action in...
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  • Langbourne's Evolution Langbourne's Evolution
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    Langbourne's Evolution

    It is 1898 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, and the Langbourne brothers’ business is maturing, and so are the boys. Morris decides the time is right for them to expand the business into Europe and...
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  • Surfacing Up
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    Surfacing Up

    Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural,...
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  • Steam in the Blood Steam in the Blood
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    Steam in the Blood

    This book is all about trains and my experiences with them together with the years of service in the locomotive area. I am recording as best as I can in this book the memoirs of my time as a fireman...
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  • Deviant Conduct in World Politics Deviant Conduct in World Politics
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    Deviant Conduct in World Politics

    A long list of countries - labelled outcasts, pariahs and rogues - have failed to meet international standards of good conduct. In the Cold War years Rhodesia, Israel, Chile, Taiwan and South Africa,...
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  • The Hunter Hunted The Hunter Hunted
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    The Hunter Hunted

    If they were not there at the time, the casual observer, would be guided by the mundane news reports that reached their countries in the 1970's. To them, the war in Rhodesia was merely just another...
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  • Lost Inheritance Lost Inheritance
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    Lost Inheritance

    My book, which is titled "Lost Inheritance", is a family bio spanning 5 generations dating back to the middle of the 18th century. It begins with the founding of the Khumalo kingdom of Matabeleland,...
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  • Justice Will Be Done Justice Will Be Done
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    Justice Will Be Done

    This novel is the sequel to We Brothers, which was the story about two boys in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and their journey to becoming men.Daniel and Peter gradually come to similar conclusions that...
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  • The Travelling Entrepreneur The Travelling Entrepreneur
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    The Travelling Entrepreneur

    From starting her first business at age eighteen in Rhodesia, to creating high-performing teams and revitalising organisations across four continents, Marilyn has survived many pitfalls and crushing...
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  • The Rise of an African Middle Class The Rise of an African Middle Class
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    The Rise of an African Middle Class

    Offers an extremely sophisticated, nuanced view of the social and political construction of an African middle class in colonial Zimbabwe." -Elizabeth SchmidtTracing their quest for social recognition...
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  • Roni's Story Roni's Story
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    Roni's Story

    This is the story of Veronica Walker's life. Roni was our mother and her life was extraordinary. Born in Northern Rhodesia she grew up not as a privileged white child in colonial Africa but as the...
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