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Author: Francis Chikerema Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1543472656 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 101
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The partition of Africa was an invasion of the continent of Africa by European nations, including the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Yes, the United Kingdom wanted to rule the whole world, and it nearly did, as can be seen on the globe on how many countries were under the British Empire. This was done to enrich the United Kingdom with no regard to whoever found them in those regions of the world. This was done without the consultation of the Africans who occupied the land. As to the African continent, this was the occupation of our land by the British and its division into their colonies. The British people of the United Kingdom were ahead of many countries in this act. William Gladstone, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, was given the power to sign a peace treaty. The peace treaty with whom? The Africans were never in agreement with whatever came out of the so-called Berlin Conference of the 18841885. Africans were not considered or allowed to have their views heard or have an input as to what was being decided to happen in their motherland, Africa. This treaty was done in Germany, since it had emerged as an imperial power under chancellor Otto von Bismarck. It was formalized and agreed upon that the scramble for Africa should go ahead without the consultation of the African people, who owned and lived in Africa. All African autonomy was eliminated and overridden, so to speak. Through devious means, Africa was stolen and possessed, and its people were enslaved and reduced to the untold indignity by the foreign powers.
Author: Francis Chikerema Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1543472656 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 101
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The partition of Africa was an invasion of the continent of Africa by European nations, including the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Yes, the United Kingdom wanted to rule the whole world, and it nearly did, as can be seen on the globe on how many countries were under the British Empire. This was done to enrich the United Kingdom with no regard to whoever found them in those regions of the world. This was done without the consultation of the Africans who occupied the land. As to the African continent, this was the occupation of our land by the British and its division into their colonies. The British people of the United Kingdom were ahead of many countries in this act. William Gladstone, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, was given the power to sign a peace treaty. The peace treaty with whom? The Africans were never in agreement with whatever came out of the so-called Berlin Conference of the 18841885. Africans were not considered or allowed to have their views heard or have an input as to what was being decided to happen in their motherland, Africa. This treaty was done in Germany, since it had emerged as an imperial power under chancellor Otto von Bismarck. It was formalized and agreed upon that the scramble for Africa should go ahead without the consultation of the African people, who owned and lived in Africa. All African autonomy was eliminated and overridden, so to speak. Through devious means, Africa was stolen and possessed, and its people were enslaved and reduced to the untold indignity by the foreign powers.
Author: George R. Knight Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc ISBN: 0828023379 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 375
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In this unique devotional George R. Knight reintroduces us to our spiritual ancestors. They werent perfect. They werent all easy to get along with. But they shared one common goaltelling others about the soon-coming Savior.But as in any family, its all too easy to forget where weve come from; to forget the struggles endured by those who have gone before us; to take for granted the inheritance they left to us. Sometimes we need a gentle reminder of the true value of their legacy. In shaping the future of Adventism, these intrepid pioneers molded not only our history, but our present. And as we reflect upon our past, perhaps we should also contemplate the future to which we are each contributors.
Author: Rafe Bates Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1848766513 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
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Lest I Forget could be described as a very different sort of memoir. Rafe Bates has lived a full, adventurous and varied life in widely divergent countries and circumstances and he brings his extraordinary experiences vividly to life in his straightforward, readable and intimate style so that the reader is able to share his understanding and experiences. The first section covers his childhood before (and into) the traumatic experiences as a boy in wartime southern England. Written with vividness and accuracy we learn of a youth obsessed with aircraft, watching his fighter-pilot friends and heroes fighting and dying to save their country in the Battle of Britain as seen from his front lawn in Sussex. He often went off on his bicycle to reach crashes before anyone else. This part is a penetrating and uniquely accurate account of the air war as observed by an independent and adventurous youngster who was in the thick of it. Partly to evade the risks of total war in which peaceable people were attacked, Rafe was taken on a six-week voyage to Cape Town. The journey was made at the height of the U-boat campaign to sink all shipping in the Atlantic, and the risk of being torpedoed that year was about 50%. His ability to survive eventually allowed him, after spells back in England, Switzerland and Ireland, to lead an enterprising and adventurous life as a ‘bushwacker’ farmer in the thriving former colony of Rhodesia, which leads him to make some forthright comments on the behaviour of successive British governments. Later, in South Africa, Rafe designed and built houses in the beautiful Drakensberg Mountains, before designing and building the remarkable ‘Batesmobile’ in which he won the incredibly tough long-distance mountain road race – the ‘Roof of Africa’. After this achievement he moved to Cape Town with his family, where he conceived and built the 16M aluminium alloy schooner ‘Long John Silver’ in which they sailed away from Africa for good. This period of his life changed when he sold his beloved yacht and engaged in forestry and other works in Scotland. Having exceeded retirement age, he eventually settled on one of the volcanic Azores islands in mid-Atlantic, where he now lives and writes and, as he says, ‘savours his memories’. Although this unique book relates the author’s adventures and enterprises, it is also a personal and candid account, laced with humour and sometimes with great sadness. Rafe’s deep instinctive affinity with our natural world, his life-long love of remote places and the logical conclusions he forms as a result of his wide experiences come through, and might be said to be the real strong point of Lest I Forget, which puts this work into a class of its own. You shouldn’t skim this book; read it carefully.
Author: Blessing-Miles Tendi Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108472893 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 351
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An essential biographical record of General Solomon Mujuru, one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics.
Author: Chris Cocks Publisher: Lime Tree Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 341
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Fire Force is the account of Chris Cocks’s service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), during Zimbabwe’s civil war of the 1970s—a war that came to be known, almost innocuously, as ‘the bush war’. Fire Force, a tactic of total airborne/airmobile envelopment, was developed by the RLI, and became the principal strike weapon of the beleaguered Rhodesian forces in their struggle against the tide of the communist-trained and -equipped ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas. “Like Reitz’s work, Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War, Fire Force, by first-time author Chris Cocks, is a personal account of close-quarter warfare. It is a unique, compelling, sometimes brutal account of a young conscript’s three years of service in the elite Rhodesian Light Infantry … Cocks’s work is one of the very few books which adequately describes the horrors of war in Africa … Fire Force is the best book on the Rhodesian War that I have read.” – Southern African Review of Books “Fire Force will be to the Rhodesian War what Remarque’s All Quiet on The Western Front was to World War I. A high claim indeed, but perhaps valid, for this moving book is a classic in any sense.” – The Star “The narrative is raw … it gives the book a veracity so complete that it will transport anyone involved in the ordeal back across the years with the force of a body blow … Rhodesia does at last have its own version of Michael Herr’s Vietnam experiences, Dispatches. A sense of regret is what really lingers, that the whole nightmare had to happen at all. The list of names of boys killed, or scarred physically and mentally, is moving beyond mere words.” – The Financial Mail
Author: Hannes Wessels Publisher: Casemate ISBN: 1612003451 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 303
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During the WestÕs great transition into the post-Colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s fought back almost alone against Communist-supported elements that it did not believe would deliver proper governance. During this long war many heroes emerged, but none more skillful and courageous than Captain Darrell Watt of the Rhodesian SAS, who placed himself at the tip of the spear in the deadly battle to resist the forces of Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo. It is difficult to find another soldierÕs story to equal WattÕs in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced. Even by the lofty standards of the SAS and Special Forces, one has to look far to find anyone who can match his record of resilience and valor in the face of such daunting odds and with resources so paltry. In the fight he showed himself to be a military maestro. A bush-lore genius, blessed with uncanny instincts and an unbridled determination to close with the enemy, he had no peers as a combat-tracker (and there was plenty of competition). But the Rhodesian theater was a fluid and volatile one in which he performed in almost every imaginable fighting role; as an airborne shock-trooper leading camp attacks, long range reconnaissance operator, covert urban operator, sniper, saboteur, seek-and-strike expert, and in the final stages as a key figure in mobilizing an allied army in neighboring Mozambique. After 12 years in the cauldron of war his cause slipped from beneath him, however, and Rhodesia gave way to Zimbabwe. When the guns went quiet Watt had won all his battles but lost the war. In this fascinating biography we learn that in his twilight years he is now concerned with saving wildlife on a continent where they are in continued danger, devoting himself to both the fauna and African people he has cared so deeply about.
Author: J. L. Fisher Publisher: ANU E Press ISBN: 1921666153 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 291
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What did the future hold for Rhodesia's white population at the end of a bloody armed conflict fought against settler colonialism? Would there be a place for them in newly independent Zimbabwe? PIONEERS, SETTLERS, ALIENS, EXILES sets out the terms offered by Robert Mugabe in 1980 to whites who opted to stay in the country they thought of as their home. The book traces over the next two decades their changing relationshipwith the country when the post-colonial government revised its symbolic and geographical landscape and reworked codes of membership. Particular attention is paid to colonial memories and white interpellation in the official account of the nation's rebirth and indigene discourses, in view of which their attachment to the place shifted and weakened. As the book describes the whites' trajectory from privileged citizens to persons of disputed membership and contested belonging, it provides valuable background information with regard to the land and governance crises that engulfed Zimbabwe at the start of the twenty-first century.
Author: Peter Godwin Publisher: Back Bay Books ISBN: 0316032093 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 269
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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years. Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity, another world. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.
Author: Hannes Wessels Publisher: Casemate Publishers ISBN: 1612005888 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 233
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A memoir from a Special Forces fighter about his experiences in the Rhodesian War and how combat has shaped his life. Andre Scheepers grew up on a farm in Rhodesia, learning about the bush from his African childhood friends, before joining the army. A quiet, introspective thinker, Andre started out as a trooper in the SAS before being commissioned into the Rhodesian Light Infantry Commandos, where he was engaged in fireforce combat operations. He then rejoined the SAS. Wounded thirteen times, his operational record is exceptional, even by the tough standards that existed at the time. He emerged as the SAS officer par excellence—beloved by his men, displaying extraordinary calm, courage, and audacious cunning during a host of extremely dangerous operations. Here, Andre writes vividly about his experiences, his emotions, and his state of mind during the war, and reflects candidly on what he learned and how war has shaped his life since. In addition to Andre’s personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War. “Andre was the best of the best and the bravest of the brave.” —Capt. Darrell Watt, ex-SAS and subject of A Handful of Hard Men
Author: Ian Douglas Smith Publisher: Kings Road Publishing ISBN: 1857826043 Category : Prime ministers Languages : en Pages : 464
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For more than a decade, Ian Smith served as Rhodesia's Prime Minister during the era of white minority rule. Following his death in 2007, he is still a man with the ability to excite powerful emotions. To some he is anbsp;leader whose formidable integrity led him into head-to-head confrontation with the Labor government of Britain in the 1960s. To others he is a demon best known for stating "I don't believe in black majority rule ever, not in a thousand years," for staunchly opposing Britain's insistence that majority rule be implemented before the nation’s independence, and for imprisoning the leadershipnbsp;of the newly emergednbsp;black nationalist movement.nbsp;In this revealing autobiography, Smith tells his own side of the story and reveals how he sought to keep Rhodesia on a path to full democracy during the West's decolonization of Africa. He tells the remarkable story behind the signing of the country’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence and addresses the excesses of power that the current president, Robert Mugabe, has used to create the virtual dictatorship which exists in Zimbabwe today. This is a revealing and prescient historical document from a controversial figure charting the rise and fall of a once-great nation.
Author: Francis Chikerema
Author: Francis Chikerema
Author: George R. Knight
Author: Rafe Bates
Author: Blessing-Miles Tendi
Author: Chris Cocks
Author: Hannes Wessels
Author: J. L. Fisher
Author: Peter Godwin
Author: Hannes Wessels
Author: Ian Douglas Smith