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Are We Not Also Men?: The Samkange Family and African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64 (Social History of Africa Series)
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by Terence Ranger
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 211 pages
Published by: Heinemann October 16, 1995
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0435089757
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0435089757
Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Book Description
This collective biography of Thompson Samkange and two of his sons, Sketchley and Stanlake, illuminates much of the History of African politics in colonial Zimbabwe. But for the Samkanges, the road to politics lay through religion, so this is a History of African involvement in Methodism as well. Thompson Samkange was born in 1893 at the time his land was being overwhelmed by white settlers from the south. Stanlake Samkange, professor of History and writer of historical novels, lived to see the achievement of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980. Terence Ranger has conjured a book of creative originality out of a range of sources. There was the unique archive of Thompson's papers in a tin trunk which had been defying rats and dampness in a laundry. The National Archives had an extraordinary body of evidence for the modern History of Methodism. Thompson Samkange was one of the founders of the African press and there is constant mention of him and his family in contemporary newspapers. When T
About The Author
TERENCE RANGER is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford and Visiting Professor of History at the University of Zimbabwe.
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