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Robert Mugabe's lost jewel of Africa
- Title
- Robert Mugabe's lost jewel of Africa / Andrew Norman.
- Author
- Norman, Andrew, 1943-
- Publication
- [Stroud] : Fonthill Media Limited, 2017.
- ©2018
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- Description
- 157 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- This is the story of Southern Rhodesia, from a time of its earliest known inhabitants, the Bushmen, to their displacement by the Bantu; the invasion by the Matabele under King Mzilikaze; the advent of the white missionaries; and the arrival of Cecil Rhodes and his Pioneer Column of early settlers, up to the time of independence in 1980. This is the romantic land of the high veld; of teeming game; of the great river Zambezi and the mighty Victoria Falls, and of enormous mineral wealth. This was the country that Robert Mugabe--its future leader--referred to as 'the jewel of Africa'. And yet in this land of plenty, tensions in the mid-twentieth century were mounting between its black inhabitants and the whites, including those of British and Afrikaner stock: tensions which would one day boil over into a civil war in which Southern Rhodesia's neighbours would also become involved. The author has first-hand knowledge of the country, having arrived there with his parents in 1956. He describes what it was like to arrive in a British colony, in the last decades of the colonial era; the wonders of Wankie Game Reserve (now Hwange National Park); a schoolboy expedition to the Eastern Districts in search of the elusive 'stone door ruin'; and a personal friendship which developed between himself and his family's black servant Timot, at a time of racial segregation.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 20-148
- ISBN
- 9781781556887
- 1781556881
- OCLC
- 1048757519
- Author
- Norman, Andrew, 1943- author.
- Title
- Robert Mugabe's lost jewel of Africa / Andrew Norman.
- Publisher
- [Stroud] : Fonthill Media Limited, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1965-1980
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 20-148