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Kaunda's Gaoler: Memoirs of a District Officer in Northern Rhodesia and Zambia
E.cyril Greenall
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Hardcover. E. Cyril Greenall arrived in Northern Rhodesia in 1944 where he worked as a district officer. 'Kaunda's Gaoler' recounts the personal side of life in an underdeveloped part of Africa while telling the history of those times. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1HFMZ; BGA; HBJH; HBLW; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
African nationalist leaders used to joke about a spell in a British colonial prison as being an essential rite of passage in the struggle for independence and leadership of the new state. This is the memoir of a district officer in Northern Rhodesia, from his arrival in the territory in 1944 through the period leading to Zambian independence. It includes a spell as Kenneth Kaunda's "gaoler", during which a personal friendship grew up and flourished, and ends with an appointment to the President's Office in post-independence Zambia. This is the story of British colonial administration and the daily round of ... Read more
African nationalist leaders used to joke about a spell in a British colonial prison as being an essential rite of passage in the struggle for independence and leadership of the new state. This is the memoir of a district officer in Northern Rhodesia, from his arrival in the territory in 1944 through the period leading to Zambian independence. It includes a spell as Kenneth Kaunda's "gaoler", during which a personal friendship grew up and flourished, and ends with an appointment to the President's Office in post-independence Zambia. This is the story of British colonial administration and the daily round of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Radcliffe Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860648625
SKU
V9781860648625
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Reviews for Kaunda's Gaoler: Memoirs of a District Officer in Northern Rhodesia and Zambia
2004 African Affairs Journal: "like all Radcliffe Press offerings, attarctively produced"