Africa, Another Side of the Coin: Northern Rhodesia's Final Years and Zambia's Nationhood

by Andrew Sardanis

Overview

This is the story of the twilight of colonialism and birth and development of a major new African nation seen from a unique standpoint from a "subject" of a colony and from a leading role in independence and laced with the bucaneering of big business. This story begins in journalism in Cyprus and moves to Northern Rhodesia where the author played a leading role as an international businessman on his own account and in multinational corporations, and in the politics of independence leading to the new nation of Zambia. He was at the heart of Zambia’s political and business development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860649264
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/27/2003
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Andrew Sardanis worked as a journalist and spent his life in Northern Rhodesia, later Zambia, where he developed his business interests including work with multinationals and was a member of the legislature and government.

Table of Contents

Introduction
• The Vision and the Journey
• The first steps
• Liberia: A Black Rhodesia
• Angola: Diamonds and...threats *  “Generous” with his country’s diamonds
• An Unprofitable Diversion
• Jewels in Africa’s Crown
• Rhodesians Never Learn
• A Pan African Bank Is Born
• Marching On
• Stepping Into the Abyss
• Heat and Dust and Camels and Bikes
• New Brooms and a Swiss Bank Account
• Presidential Palaces and Porno Films
• The New Democrats
• Cameroon and Other Disasters
• Green Crocodile Leather Shoes and Storm Clouds
• Hate and Venom
• The Elusive Supervision
• Meridien BIAO: Bank of the People
• How Come Nobody Had Gotten Suspicious?
• Meryl: Ignorance and Prejudice
• Muddying the Waters
• Misguided Intervention *  Akashimi
• A Quaint Anachronism
• The Curtain Comes Down
• The Vultures
• A Wasted Effort *  But Life Carries On
• More Challenges in the Southern Region
• South Africa: Free and in Bondage
• Ten Wasted Years
• Quo Vadit?
• Epilogue
• Glossary