Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67
A deeply felt and engaging personal account of Zimbabwe's political awakening by one of its best-known historians.



I did not set out for Rhodesia as a radical' writes Terence Ranger. This memoir of the years between 1957, when he first went to Southern Rhodesia, and 1967 when he published his first book, is both an intimate record of the African awakening which Ranger witnessed during those ten years, and of the process which led him to write Revolt in Southern Rhodesia. Intended as both history and as historiography, Writing Revolt is also about the ways in which politics and history interacted. The men with whom Ranger discussed Zimbabwean history were the leaders of African nationalism; his seminar papers were sent to prisons and into restricted areas. Both they and he were making political as well as intellectual discoveries. The book also includes a brief account of Ranger's life before he went to Africa.

TERENCE RANGER was Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxfordand author of many books including Are we not also Men? (1995), Voices from the Rocks (1999) and Bulawayo Burning (2010), and co-editor of Violence and Memory (2000).

Zimbabwe & Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Namibia): Weaver Press
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Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67
A deeply felt and engaging personal account of Zimbabwe's political awakening by one of its best-known historians.



I did not set out for Rhodesia as a radical' writes Terence Ranger. This memoir of the years between 1957, when he first went to Southern Rhodesia, and 1967 when he published his first book, is both an intimate record of the African awakening which Ranger witnessed during those ten years, and of the process which led him to write Revolt in Southern Rhodesia. Intended as both history and as historiography, Writing Revolt is also about the ways in which politics and history interacted. The men with whom Ranger discussed Zimbabwean history were the leaders of African nationalism; his seminar papers were sent to prisons and into restricted areas. Both they and he were making political as well as intellectual discoveries. The book also includes a brief account of Ranger's life before he went to Africa.

TERENCE RANGER was Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxfordand author of many books including Are we not also Men? (1995), Voices from the Rocks (1999) and Bulawayo Burning (2010), and co-editor of Violence and Memory (2000).

Zimbabwe & Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Namibia): Weaver Press
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Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67

Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67

by T O Ranger
Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67

Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67

by T O Ranger

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A deeply felt and engaging personal account of Zimbabwe's political awakening by one of its best-known historians.



I did not set out for Rhodesia as a radical' writes Terence Ranger. This memoir of the years between 1957, when he first went to Southern Rhodesia, and 1967 when he published his first book, is both an intimate record of the African awakening which Ranger witnessed during those ten years, and of the process which led him to write Revolt in Southern Rhodesia. Intended as both history and as historiography, Writing Revolt is also about the ways in which politics and history interacted. The men with whom Ranger discussed Zimbabwean history were the leaders of African nationalism; his seminar papers were sent to prisons and into restricted areas. Both they and he were making political as well as intellectual discoveries. The book also includes a brief account of Ranger's life before he went to Africa.

TERENCE RANGER was Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxfordand author of many books including Are we not also Men? (1995), Voices from the Rocks (1999) and Bulawayo Burning (2010), and co-editor of Violence and Memory (2000).

Zimbabwe & Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Namibia): Weaver Press

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781847010711
Publisher: BOYDELL & BREWER INC
Publication date: 02/21/2013
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 218
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations vii

Preface xi

Chapter 1 1929-57 A Very Ordinary Boy 1

Chapter 2 1957 The University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 14

Chapter 3 1958 The Southern Rhodesian National Congress 27

Chapter 4 1959 The Central African Emergencies 39

Chapter 5 1960 The National Democratic Party 60

Chapter 6 1962 Citizens Against the Colour Bar 88

Chapter 7 1962 The Zimbabwe African Peoples Union 121

Chapter 8 1963 and Afterwards: Deportation, The Nationalist Split, Dar es Salaam and Writing Revolt 149

Appendix of Names 183

Select References 191

Bibliography 193

Index 204

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