Colonial Lessons

Colonial Lessons
Author: Carol Summers
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325070476

Studying of the meanings of education, mission identities, and cultural change in Southern Rhodesia, Summers shows how mission-educated Africans negotiated new identities for themselves and their communities within the confines of segregation. From the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the Second World War, Africans in Southern Rhodesia experienced massive changes. Colonialism was systematized, segregation grew rigid and intensive, and economic changes affected every aspect of life from assembling bridewealth to entrepreneurial opportunities. This book provides a challenging portrayal of the possibilities and limits of African agency within the colonial context. Mission-educated Africans who aspired to elements of European material culture experienced these transformations most directly. Individually and collectively, they met the barriers erected by an increasingly restive white settler population and Native administration. This book details the strikes organized by students and parents, struggles over curricula, efforts of African teachers to improve their professional status, and conflicts between colonial officials regarding administrative control over schools and development programs. Summers reveals the ways in which these tensions and conflicts allowed select groups of Africans to reconfigure and, to some extent, appropriate aspects of European power.

Southern Rhodesia–South Africa Relations, 1923–1953

Southern Rhodesia–South Africa Relations, 1923–1953
Author: Abraham Mlombo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030542831

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the ‘special relationship’ between Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. While most studies approach this from the history of British and South African relations or the history of South African territorial expansion, this book offers new insights by examining Southern Rhodesia’s relations with South Africa from the former’s perspective. Exploring relations through the lens of settler colonialism, the book argues that settler colonialism in the region was marked by a competitive and antagonistic relationship between settler communities, particularly Afrikaner and English communities. The book explores the connections between these countries by examining (high) politics, economic links, and social and cultural ties, highlighting both instances of competition and cooperation. Above all, it argues that economic ties were the cornerstone of the relationship and that these shaped the rest of the ties between the two countries. Drawing on archival records from Britain, South Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as a number of secondary sources, it offers a much more nuanced perspective of this relationship than has been previously offered.

The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1498
Release: 2016-12-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 023027062X

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: Mortimer Epstein
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1480
Release: 2016-12-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 023027059X

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: John Scott-Keltie
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1521
Release: 2016-12-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230270557

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.