| Abstract: | Ten years ago the University College, Salisbury, could reasonably have been described as a major centre of the new African historiography; at any rate there was no rival to the claim anywhere between Salisbury and Makerere. In 1963 a physical migration of Salisbury historians to Lusaka produced the first pronouncement of the new Central African historiography in the shape of the conference papers printed in The Zambesian Past. Recent publications on Southern Rhodesia provide an opportunity to survey the development of its historiography which has gone through three broad stages: 1. the white 'nationalist' historiography, from the 1890s to the Federation in 1953; 2. the period of the Central African Federation, a boom time for historical studies in Southern Rhodesia; 3. the current phase dating from the emergence of the Rhodesia Front government in 1962, with its transformation of the historical picture. This review article examines the developments in Rhodesian historiography and its future aspects. Ref. |
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