Mothers of the Revolution: The War Experiences of Thirty Zimbabwean Women

"Irene Staunton must have borrowed God's eyes for a while to get as close as she did to the pulse of a story so human that its warmth is almost visibly glowing." -- Weekly Mail"Together, these stories are a powerful and eloquent tribute to the suffering and triumph of the Zimbabwean liberation struggle." -- Choice"These are inspiring stories of resilience and courage in circumstances too horrifying for most Western readers even to begin to imagine." -- The Women's Review of Books"This book provides a unique perspective on the daily life of women in war... " -- WLW JournalThese first-hand accounts from thirty women directly affected by the Zimbabwean liberation war depict courage, endurance, pain, and a different sort of struggle. They reveal as much about the people's true expectations of independence as they do about their post-independence delights and disappointments.

History

Staunton, Irene

Africa

James Currey

Previous work has tended to place the subject of resistance studies exclusively within an anticolonial context. This collection broadens the concept to include crime and violence.

Banditry, Rebellion and Social Protest in Africa

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

African Economic History: Internal Development and External Dependancy

Business & Money

Ralph Austen

Economics

This book spans two thousand years from the origins of domesticated food production to the third decade of the independence era. The author applies various theoretical perspectives to the two main themes of internal development and external dependency, with an emphasis on the continuous growth of domestic African economic capacities accompanied by an ever-increasing engagement with the international economy. North America: Heinemann

African Economic History: Internal Development and External Dependency

Austen, Ralph A.

World Literature

<p>The rise of Zanzibar was based on two major economic transformations: firstly, slaves became used for the production of cloves and grain for export, instead of the slaves themselves being exported; secondly there was an increased demand for luxuries such as ivory and Zanzibar took advantage of its strategic position to trade as far as the Great Lakes. Yet this economic success increasingly subordinated Zanzibar to Britain, with its anti-slavery crusade and its control over the Indian merchant class. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP</p>

Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar: Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770-1873 (Eastern African Studies)

Abdul Sheriff

These diaries are a candid record of eight years of triumph and frustration in the reform and development of an African colony. They also reflect wider events: the struggle between British imperialism and Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa, the impact of the depression and the shadow of the coming war.  North America: Lilian Barber Press; Botswana: Botswana Society

Monarch of All I Survey: Bechuanaland Diaries 1929-37

Sir Charles Rey

Biographies & Memoirs

The author follows the story of the squatters farming the land in the 'White Highlands' at first unused by the Europeans. After 1923 the white settlers demanded more labour from the squatters and began to restrict their use of the land for cultivation and animal husbandry until by the early 1940s most of the squatters livestock had gone. Kanogo traces the squatters' increasing poverty and disillusion and their involvement in Mau Mau, particularly that of the women. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP

Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63 (Eastern African Studies)

Kanogo, Tabitha

Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63

Engineering & Transportation

Tabitha Kanogo

Engineering

In the sister two volumes entitled Unhappy Valley 1 and Unhappy Valley 2, the authors investigate major themes including the conquest origins and subsequent development of the colonial state, the contradictory social forces that articulated African societies to European capitalism, and the creation of new political communities and changing meanings of ethnicity in Africa, in the context of social differentiation and class formation. There is substantial new work on the problems of Mau Mau and of wealth, poverty and civic virtue in Kikuyu political thought. The authors make a fresh contribution to a deeper historical understanding of contemporary Kenyan society and, in particular, of the British and Kikuyu origins of Mau Mau and the emergency of the 1950s. They also highlight some of the shortcomings of ideas about development, explore the limitations of narrowly structuralist Marxist theory of the state, and reflect on the role of history in the future of Africa. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP

Unhappy Valley. Conflict in Kenya and Africa: Book One: State and Class (Eastern African Studies)

Berman, Bruce

Lonsdale, John

This story of Kenya in the decade before the outbreak of the Mau Mau emergency presents an integrated view of imperial government as well as examining the social and economic causes of the Kikuyu revolt. The author combines traditional imperial history with its emphasis on the high politics of 'the official mind' in the Colonial Office or Government House with an African historiography which concentrates on the people themselves. Under Kenyatta's leadership the Kenya African Union mobilised a popular constiuency among the peasantry. In Nairobi the Kikuyu street gangs linked up with militant trade unionists to challenge Kenyatta's leadership. The revolt which emerged was a dominant factor in convincing the conservative imperial government that the cost of repression in the African colonies was too high in troops, money and resources. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP

Economic and Social Origins of Mau Mau, 1945-53 (Eastern African Studies)

David W. Throup

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