Abstract: | The multiracial University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, from its inception in 1955 involved in the politics of the country at large, was a reflection of the hopes of the liberal element in South. Rhodesia during the Federation period; its staff and students contributed to the partial liberalisation of social mores that accompanied certain phases of that period. Its multiracial character called forth fierce opposition from certain sections of opinion. The break-up of the Federation, the rise to power of the Rhodesian Front, the restatement of the concept of white supremacy brought the Collage's philosophy into conflict with the general tendency of the country's white opinion. A conflict which was intensified to crisis level by the illegal seizure of independence by Mr. Smith on November 11th 1965. The author describes in what anomalous position the University College was placed by the U.D.I.; following the eYents in the College in the period imlmdiataly following U.D.I. he traces the major features of the crisis and relates them to Rhodesian Front policy towards higher education in Rhodesia. Notaa. |