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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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  • Africa's Freedom Railway
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    Africa's Freedom Railway

    The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or Freedom Railway, from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia, was instrumental in fostering one of the most...
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  • Geraldine
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    Geraldine

    Whether it's escaping boarding school, or buying hormones from the local speed dealer, Geraldine is open to all the world has to offer - even if the world doesn't quite know what to make of her.This...
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  • Basic Facts on Zambia Basic Facts on Zambia
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    Basic Facts on Zambia

    Zambia is a landlocked country in Central/Southern Africa, surrounded by eight neighbours. From the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River to the southern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the north, and...
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  • Liberal Nationalism in Central Africa Liberal Nationalism in Central Africa
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    Liberal Nationalism in Central Africa

    This book transforms our understanding of the recent political history of Central Africa. It charts the complex life and thought of Harry Nkumbula (ca. 1917-1983), the first openly nationalist...
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  • Humping my drum Humping my drum
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    Humping my drum

    HUMPING MY DRUM by J.A.Barnes PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: After a lifetime of not keeping a diary, John Barnes has reconstructed his past from a good memory and those few documents that do record his...
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  • South Africa To-day South Africa To-day
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    South Africa To-day

    This insightful book provides a comprehensive overview of the history, politics, and culture of South Africa, as well as an in-depth look at modern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Hamilton Fyfe's first-hand...
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  • Wisa Handbook Wisa Handbook
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    Wisa Handbook

    For linguists, anthropologists, and curious travelers, Arthur Cornwallis Madan's 'Wisa Handbook' provides a fascinating look at the Wisa dialect of North-East Rhodesia (now Zambia). With detailed...
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    Central and South African History

    Beginning with the kingdoms of the Congo in the 14th and 15th centuries, and their histories, this volume analyzes the influence and pressures of the Portugese, the Catholic Church, and slave traders...
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  • A Measure of Grim Delight A Measure of Grim Delight
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    A Measure of Grim Delight

    A young Irish mechanic is persuaded by an American banker’s daughter attending a post-graduate course in Belfast to return to America with her. There they will seek new opportunities and find...
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    The Uncaring, Intricate World
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    The Uncaring, Intricate World

    In the 1950s the colonial British government in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) began construction on a large hydroelectric dam that created Lake Kariba and...
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  • More Bulletin Board-Ers More Bulletin Board-Ers
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    More Bulletin Board-Ers

    More Bulletin Board-ers picks up where Bulletin Board-ers left off. Over 2,000 new one-liners are included in this little book. Suitable for Sunday bulletins, church newsletters, announcement boards,...
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  • Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles
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    Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles

    What did the future hold for Rhodesia's white population at the end of a bloody armed conflict fought against settler colonialism? Would there be a place for them in newly independent Zimbabwe?...
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  • Leading from Behind Leading from Behind
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    Leading from Behind

    Drawing on communications ‘rescued’ from the shredders in the last days of Rhodesia, enlivened by photographs and memories - both her own and those of her colleagues - Maia Chenaux-Repond...
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  • Assassination of Herbert Chitepo Assassination of Herbert Chitepo
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    Assassination of Herbert Chitepo

    On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe from white-ruled Rhodesia, was killed by a car bomb. Since...
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  • The Secret World of Shlomo Fine The Secret World of Shlomo Fine
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    The Secret World of Shlomo Fine

    K.M.R Smythe grew up in Rhodesia Her family lived in the grounds of Ingutsheni Mental Hospital in Bulawayo from 1953-1971 where her father worked as a psychiatrist. As a child she grappled with many...
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  • FAILED TIMES and TWISTED FOLLIES FAILED TIMES and TWISTED FOLLIES
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    FAILED TIMES and TWISTED FOLLIES

    'Failed Times and Twisted Follies' is a collection of entertaining true-life stories in the life of one of Australia's adventurers, John Carr (1935-2021). Always striving for his next adventure...
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  • DEAD LETTER DEAD LETTER
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    DEAD LETTER

    Attending a university fancy dress ball should have been a matter of grinning and bearing it. Fancy dress isn't everyone's idea of a good time, after all. For one man, however, the act of hiring a...
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    Pan-Africanism Versus Partnership

    This book takes the transnational history of southern Africa's liberation struggles in an innovative direction. It provides one of the first targeted studies of the manner in which the wider process...
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  • Rambles on the Edge Rambles on the Edge
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    Rambles on the Edge

    RAMBLES ON THE EDGE continues the story of Wendy’s family as they leave Kenya for new opportunities in Rhodesia at a time when the country was safe and prosperous but, unknown to them, a state...
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    Fighting and Writing
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    Fighting and Writing

    In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964-1979 Zimbabwean...
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  • Chalk, Baked Beans, and Bog Rolls Chalk, Baked Beans, and Bog Rolls
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    Chalk, Baked Beans, and Bog Rolls

    This autobiography seizes the past seventy years by the scruff of the neck and nostalgically frolics down memory lane in South Africa, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and England. Plentifully laced...
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  • Between Neighbors Between Neighbors
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    Between Neighbors

    Antonia "Toni" Caldwell is making the move of all moves. Her career as a paralegal is taking her to new heights beginning with a new life in Houston, Texas. Although, she's going to miss everything...
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  • Zambia Stole My Heart Zambia Stole My Heart
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    Zambia Stole My Heart

    Fired with the vision of missionary work in Africa, Merfyn Temple trained as a Methodist minister and sailed for Northern Rhodesia in 1943. Yet he soon came to reject the classic colonial-missionary...
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  • Bush Background Bush Background
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    Bush Background

    The author relates his experiences from an early age, growing up in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and the profound impressions it left with him. These are well described as anecdotal excerpts that will...
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  • Jon Sable Freelance Omnibus 3 Jon Sable Freelance Omnibus 3
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    Jon Sable Freelance Omnibus 3

    All-out action, dramatic sensuality and critical social awareness are the hallmarks of this, the third Omnibus edition of Mike Grell's award-winning Jon Sable Freelance! In this volume we conclude...
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  • Bush War Bush War
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    Bush War

    The purpose of this monograph is to examine the use of indigenous surrogates by both the Republic of South Africa and Rhodesia in Southern Africa's Bush Wars from 1975 to 1989. The Bush Wars are of...
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  • The Lodge of Valour The Lodge of Valour
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    The Lodge of Valour

    This is the sequel of Into Africa. It is based on firsthand actual life experiences. It expresses how a parent nurtures and develops a personality of their child in a story, with author's inserts to...
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    Helen's African Journey

    "If I had said that I intended to fly the Atlantic alone, it would not have caused more wonderment to my friends than this proposed trip by myself. That I would die of fever, be eaten by a lion, be...
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  • Lala-Lamba Handbook Lala-Lamba Handbook
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    Lala-Lamba Handbook

    The Lala-Lamba Handbook is a book written by Arthur Cornawallis Madan in 1908. It provides a short introduction to the southwestern division of the Wisa-Lala dialect spoken in Northern Rhodesia,...
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  • The Emerald Diamond The Emerald Diamond
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    The Emerald Diamond

    Solicitor Richard Jennings think is it is just another ordinary day when he shows up at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin to cover for an associate on leave. Unfortunately, he could not be...
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  • Africanizing Anthropology Africanizing Anthropology
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    Africanizing Anthropology

    Africanizing Anthropology tells the story of the anthropological fieldwork centered at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) during the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on...
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  • From the Margins of Empire
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    From the Margins of Empire

    Situated at the intersection of the colonial and the postcolonial, the modern and the postmodern, the novelists Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, and Nadine Gordimer all bear witness to this century's...
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  • Travel & Adventure in South-East Africa Travel & Adventure in South-East Africa
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    Travel & Adventure in South-East Africa

    In this first-hand account from explorer Frederick Selous, first published in 1893, readers follow the true story of a trailblazing adventurer in an unknown land. Selous explored the area around the...
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  • I Think I Grew Up Better Than You I Think I Grew Up Better Than You
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    I Think I Grew Up Better Than You

    Northern Rhodesia just off the Congo border in the nineteen fifties was thick with untamed bush, man height grass, and tall vined trees. The sweltering heat, animal paths, deadly reptiles,...
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  • Lenje Handbook Lenje Handbook
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    Lenje Handbook

    The Lenje Handbook, written by Arthur Cornwallis Madan and published in 1908, is a short introduction to the Lenje dialect spoken in Northwest Rhodesia. This book provides a comprehensive overview of...
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  • From Inverness to Africa From Inverness to Africa
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    From Inverness to Africa

    A unique recollection of social life and changes in the Highlands of Scotland in the early twentieth century. It documents not only a personal struggle to succeed in the construction industry from...
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  • Leopards Never Change Their Spots Leopards Never Change Their Spots
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    Leopards Never Change Their Spots

    One single bullet was all it took...Terrified and heartbroken, Randall Crookshank packs his bags, a plane ticket purchased. Naïve as to where he's going, Randall is greeted with buzzing cars and...
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  • Clearing of the mist Clearing of the mist
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    Clearing of the mist

    Thirty years have passed since Sam, and his mates went through the mist to the year 1863. Thirty years ago Sam received his head wounds in the attack on Auckland. Since then Sam's memory had not...
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  • The Sweethearts of Death The Sweethearts of Death
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    The Sweethearts of Death

    Early 1960s Africa was the Dark Continent of James Conrad, David Livingstone, and Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Often found in any of over 20 African nations traveller Michael Walsh identified with the...
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  • Memories of an African Sun Memories of an African Sun
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    Memories of an African Sun

    Eight-year-old Mary Ann Simkins was about to embark on a new life in a faraway place. Traveling far from her familiar home, she was on a journey to a life of adventure through the wild bush of...
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