A Non-Racial Island of Learning

A history of the University College of Rhodesia from its inception to 1966

Michael Gelfand

Mambo Press
Gweru
1978
English
Paperback
376 pages

This book is out of print.

Synopsis

This is a meticulously researched and documented book that deals in great detail with the many-sided and interlocking stages inevitable in the establishment and development of so complex an institution as a university. It is an invaluable book and a rich source for tracing not only the inner history of the University College of Rhodesia but, much more, the attitudes, prejudices, tensions, and anxieties of the age and the country with which it deals.

Review

A Non-Racial Island of Learning: a history of the University College of Rhodesia from its inception to 1966 is, then, a limited study which by its very format is difficult and unrewarding to read straight through. - The Journal of Modern African Studies

Author

Professor Michael Gelfand was one of Zimbabwe's most distinguished colonial medical practitioners, who received a Papal Order of the Knighthood of St. Sylvester.