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Title: | The Central African Examiner, 1957-1965 |
Author: | King, Anthony |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | Zambezia |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 133-155 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Southern Africa |
Subjects: | press censorship History and Exploration Literature, Mass Media and the Press History, Archaeology Central African examiner (title) history political science |
External link: | https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_65 |
Abstract: | In the wake of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) on 11 November 1965, censorship was imposed on the press. 'The Central African Examiner' challenged the imposition of censorship in court and lost. The December 1965 issue was its last. The 'Examiner' had not always been such a prominent thorn in the Government's side. Founded in 1957 as a liberal journal aimed at the political and economic elite and the intelligentsia, its express aim was the furthering of the cause of partnership, one of the foundations on which the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was created. This article is a critical analysis of the 'Examiner's' existence and influence. It places this fortnightly (later monthly) magazine of comment and opinion in the debate on liberal thought and the policy of partnership in Rhodesia in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It shows that after 1960, when the 'Examiner' was bought by Theo Bull, and especially after acquiring more African contributors, it moved closer to the nationalists, reflecting views that were more opposed to government and policy, and which were becoming harder to express openly. Notes, ref., sum. |