Origins of Rhodesia

Stanlake Samkange

Heinemann Books
London
1969
English
Hardcover
304 pages

This book has since been long out of print.

Synopsis

In Origins of Rhodesia Samkange has written a straightforward history of the formative years of Rhodesia, 1887 -90. This is based upon documentary and oral evidence studied in Rhodesia as well as in Britain and the United States.

Review

We are not likely to get a closer or more accurate view of the essential events leading up to the invasion of Matabeleland by the British South Africa Company than Stanlake Samkange presents in the Origins of Rhodesia. - Prosser Gifford, African Historical Studies

Author

Stanlake John William Thompson Samkange (1922–1988) was a Zimbabwean historiographer, educationist, journalist, author, and African nationalist. He was a member of an elite Zimbabwean nationalist political dynasty and the most prolific of the first generation of black Zimbabwean creative writers in English.