The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe 1898-1965 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe 1898-1965 Book

" . . . the most important book to date on the origins and activities of the African elite in Southern Rhodesia . . . ." --John Higginson In this fine-grained history, Michael O. West focuses on how the unintended consequences of colonialism led to the creation of an African middle class in Zimbabwe. Tracing Africans' quest for social recognition from the time of Cecil Rhodes to Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence, West shows how some Africans were able to avail themselves of scarce educational and social opportunities in order to achieve some degree of upward mobility in a society that was hostile to their ambitions.Read More

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  • 0253215242
  • 9780253215246
  • Michael West
  • 1 September 2002
  • Indiana University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 344
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