African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80

A look at the ambiguous experience of black security force personnel in white minority ruled colonial Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

List of contents

Recruiting and Motivations for Enlistment
Perceptions of African Security Force Members
Education and Upward Mobility
Camp Life
African Women and the Security Forces
Objections and Reforms
Travel and Danger
Demobilization and Veterans

About the author

TIMOTHY STAPLETON is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary.

Summary

A look at the ambiguous experience of black security force personnel in white minority ruled colonial Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe].

Product details

• Authors: Professor Timothy (Royalty Account) Stapleton, Timothy Stapleton
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2011
• EAN: 9781580463805
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-380-5
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918