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Title:War Propaganda during the Second World War in Northern Rhodesia
Author:Smyth, Rosaleen
Year:1984
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:83
Issue:332
Period:July
Pages:345-358
Language:English
Geographic term:Zambia
Subjects:propaganda
World War II
History and Exploration
colonialism
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/722352
Abstract:Most Africans in Northern Rhodesia experienced the Second World War vicariously through war news and propaganda. The present article explores the impact this second-hand experience of the war had on the colony. Relatively speaking, the war produced something of an information explosion in Northern Rhodesia. The war news and propaganda to which the African population was suddenly exposed hastened the emergence of an African political voice; the need to mobilise public opinion in support of the war effort led the Northern Rhodesian government to pay more attention to African public opinion than it had done before the war; indirectly the war stimulated some educated Africans to use the press, government as well as commercial, in order to engage in political dialogue with the administration and with white settler politicians. Notes.
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