| Are We Not Also Men?: The Samkange Family and African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64 Contributor(s): Ranger, T. O. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0852556187 ISBN-13: 9780852556184 Publisher: James Currey OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | African - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 968.910 |
| Series: Social History of Africa |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This work provides a collective biography of Thompson Samkange and of two of his sons, Sketchley and Stanlake. Thompson Samkange was born in 1893 at the time that his land was being overwhelmed from the South. He was one of the founders of the African press. Stanlake Samkange, Professor of History and writer of historical novels, lived to see the achievement of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980. Terence Ranger has had access to a range of sources, including the archive of Thompson's papers, found in a tin trunk which had been kept amongst rats and damp in a laundry. He also discovered a large body of evidence for the modern history of Methodism in the National Archives. However, much of this book depends on the information gleaned from oral interviews. Zimbabwe: Baoba |