Pan-Africanism Versus Partnership

This book takes the transnational history of southern Africa's liberation struggles in an innovative direction. It provides one of the first targeted studies of the manner in which the wider process of African decolonisation shaped the political struggle for control of Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe). It offers an in-depth survey of the repercussions of pan-African developments on national-level political thought amidst one of the most seminal moments of the continent's history.

The book draws on over a year of fieldwork in southern Africa as well as archival collections in the USA and UK to explore the seismic re-alignments that occurred in the white settler dominated territory in southern Africa as self-determination became a widely accepted international principle virtually overnight. In particular, it focuses on the impact of decolonisation struggles and/or independence in Ghana, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi on Zimbabwe's liberation struggle. In so doing, it also offers new context on the roots of contemporary repression in Zimbabwe.

Includes a foreword contributed by noted Zimbabwean activist and author Judith Todd.

Includes material from west, central, and southern Africa Highlights well-known African leaders like Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Robert Mugabe, Kwame Nkrumah, and Patrice Lumumba Gives equal weight to African nationalist and white settler political activity in the struggle for Rhodesia/Zimbabwe

Inhalt
Chapter One Introduction: African Decolonisation and Realignments in Southern Rhodesian Politics.- Part I: (Decolonisation & Realignments: Domestic Level).- Chapter Two Resisting Pan-Africanism: From Partnership to Bulwark in White Politics.- Chapter Three Pan-African Disunity: From Fraternity to Factionalism in Zimbabwean Nationalism.- Part II: (Decolonisation & Realignments: Continental Level).- Chapter Four 'Forward Ever, Backward Never!' West Africa in Southern Rhodesian Politics.- Chapter Five 'Long Live Lumumba!' Congo (Leopoldville) in Southern Rhodesian Politics.- Chapter Six 'Kwacha! Nyasaland in Southern Rhodesian Politics.- Chapter Seven Conclusion: The Use and Abuse of Africa in Southern Rhodesian Politics.- Appendices.- A. Timeline of Key Events.- B. Government and Political Party Leadership.- C. Federal and Nationalist Representation in Africa.- D. Diagramof the Central African Alliance Plan.- E. Precis of Southern Rhodesia General Election Returns.