• Transnational revolutionary : Noel Mukono’s navigation of Zimbabwe’s fractious liberation struggle, 1957–77 

  Marmon, Brooks (Routledge, 2023)

  This article recovers the role of Noel Mukono in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle. The defence chief of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1964 to 1973, his pioneering role in instigating the armed struggle ...
• Modifying the model : developing the domestic tourism remodelling model 

  Harris, Karen Leigh; Botha, Christoffel Rudolph (AfricaJournals, 2023)

  COVID-19 brought travel as we know it to a complete standstill. At the time it was believed that the impact of the pandemic was unprecedented and that the projected recovery would need to be both different and transformative. ...
• Cooperation and competition : South Africa and southern Rhodesia during and after the Second World War 

  Gwande, Victor Muchineripi; Mlombo, Abraham (Brill Academic Publishers, 2023-08)

  This paper discusses relations between South Africa and Southern Rhodesia from 1939 to 1948. The article begins in 1939 when the outbreak of the Second World War brought mixed fortunes for the two neighbours. For Southern ...
• ‘We must analyse where our national interest lies and not worry too much about other people’s domestic policies’ : Richard M. Nixon and apartheid South Africa in the early 1970s 

  Michel, Eddie (Routledge, 2022)

  This article explores the pragmatic stance that the United States adopted, during the Nixon era, regarding relations with Pretoria. The Nixon administration believed that Washington needed to prioritise the protection of ...
• Money for Africa and money in Africa : colonial currencies and the making of economies and states, 1860s-1960s 

  Krozewski, Gerold; Nyamunda, Tinashe (Cambridge University Press, 2023-09)

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• Civil society and peacebuilding in Zimbabwe’s 2018 elections 

  Ndakaripa, Musiwaro (Routledge, 2023)

  Zimbabwe’s 30 July 2018 elections took place after ‘a military assisted transition’ that ousted Robert Mugabe and installed Emmerson Mnangagwa as president in November 2017. Initially, the new government projected a reformist ...
• Rhizome networks : turmeric’s global journey from haldi doodh to turmeric latte 

  Paleker, Gairoonisa (Routledge, 2023)

  Turmeric has a long history of use in South and Southeast Asia going back thousands of years. Its first known reference is found in the Atharva Veda, one of the four Vedic texts of Hinduism. In Sanskrit it has over fifty ...
• Rise and demise of the Zimbabwe Times : ZAPU’s and Lonrho’s covert(ish) nationalist daily in Rhodesia 

  Marmon, Brooks (Routledge, 2023)

  This article explores the emergence and destruction of the Zimbabwe Times, a weekly, later daily newspaper in Rhodesia. Covertly aligned to the Patriotic Front, an uneasy coalition of Zimbabwe’s two leading liberation ...
• Rondavels : from Mamelodi to the presidential library and archives 

  Smith, E.T. (South African Society of Cultural History, 2022-06)

  ‘Rondavels: From Mamelodi to the presidential library and archives’ considers the recently unveiled architectural design of the fi rst presidential library on the African continent, the Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library. ...
• An imperial historian of empire : insights from the Philip Warhurst papers, Killie Campbell Africana Library 

  Marmon, Brooks (University of the Free State, 2022-12-31)

  This research note recovers the career and personal papers of Philip Warhurst, a British historian who taught at universities in Rhodesia and South Africa from the 1960s until the 1990s. The note simultaneously reviews the ...
• Museums as dark tourism destinations : the Kgoši Mampuru correctional service prison museum 

  Motena, Matsobane Steven (South African Museums Association, 2022-12)

  Dark tourism is one of the fastest-growing tourism industries around the world, inextricably linked to museums with dark pasts. These museums are attractions and destinations associated with death, tragedy or suffering, ...
• Settler worldmaking : reconfiguring the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953–62 

  Marmon, Brooks (Cambridge University Press, 2023-04)

  As soon as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formed in 1953, disgruntled white settler politicians in the new polity pushed for the reconfiguration of its borders. Driven by decolonisation struggles across ...
• Putting the first people first : the case of the southern African Bushmen 

  Van den Berg, Danolien (Africa Journals, 2023-04)

  Despite it being widely recognised that the Bushmen of southern Africa have the oldest DNA in the world, and that they are the first peoples of the region, their voices are often the last to be heard in matters pertaining ...
• Blood and blood : anti-retroviral therapy, masculinity, and redemption among adolescent boys in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa 

  Gittings, Lesley; Colvin, Christopher J.; Hodes, Rebecca (Wiley, 2022-09)

  Adolescents living with perinatally acquired HIV are among the first generation in South Africa to grow up with anti-retroviral therapy and democratic freedoms. In this article, we explore the biosocial lives of adolescent ...
• South Africa’s Secret Chemical Weapons Project, 1933-1945 

  Dedering, Tilman (Routledge, 2022)

  Recent scholarship has drawn attention to the chemical and biological weapons ‘Project Coast’ in the final phase of the apartheid regime. The earlier history of the production of chemical weapons in South Africa has received ...
• Southern Rhodesia and Britain's discriminatory sterling area : the dollar crisis and post-war colonial tobacco trade, 1947-1960 

  Ncube, Sibanengi; Nyamunda, Tinashe (Routledge, 2022)

  Drawing on archival material from the National Archives of Zimbabwe, Adam Matthews Digital Archives and newspaper reports, this study locates Southern Rhodesia’s tobacco industry within post-war currency developments and ...
• The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953–1963 : a retrospective at its unattained platinum jubilee 

  Marmon, Brooks (Routledge, 2023)

  Seventy years ago, an association of three colonies in what European imperialists then dubbed British Central Africa came into being. The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (hereafter the Federation) – a union of Southern ...
• Independence and Pan-African diplomatic contestation: anti-colonial nationalism and the eclipse of white legitimacy in 'British Central Africa', 1957-64 

  Marmon, Brooks (Routledge, 2023)

  The rapid collapse of European empires in Africa transformed the politics of the white settler dominated states at the south of the continent. In what briefly remained ‘British Central Africa’, the rise of sovereign states ...
• 'Foreign body' : a social history of Implanon in South Africa's Eastern Cape 

  Hodes, Rebecca (Taylor and Francis, 2023-08)

  This article explores the reception of the contraceptive implant, Implanon, by healthcare workers and patients in family planning units in South Africa’s public health sector. Based on observations conducted at public ...
• Contested histories and entangled memories : Cuba and Africa relations 

  Smith, Edwin T. (University of Pretoria, Institute for Strategic Studies, 2022)

  The publication of Cuba and Africa 1959–1994: Writing an Alternative Atlantic History is not just timely. The study is also a critical resource to assist modern society, particularly Africans, to grapple with the legacy ...

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