Preface Into Africa European Pre-eminence Berry’s Post and Some Early History Raffingora Ballymakosa Communications and Music in Africa Salisbury Rhodesian Social Ruzawi Independent Thinking Operation Noah Getting About Wild Friends Visits Rare Folk, Misfits and Odd Balls European Excursion Loss and Independence Peterhouse and Prejudice Kanyemba Denouement Note on Governance, Politics and Economy
A memoir of a British family living in Colonial Southern Rhodesia
Mark Huleatt-James was a solicitor and partner in a City of London law firm until his retirement in 2009. He was born in 1950 in what was then Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia and lived in Africa until 1972. He is a director of ILFA, a charitable organisation set up for the purpose of building legal excellence in Africa.
'This is an important work. It is a gentle, humorous memoir of an idyllic coming of age in post- World War II Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) and is also a poignant tribute to a vanished age of family and community. But it is also a reminder of white settlerism's last gleaming before the pent-up grievances of the repressed African majority would lead to armed conflict and, ultimately, majority rule. The core of the work lies in the author's remembrance of things past; but his juxtaposition of the past and present lifts the book from being just another slice of Rhodesiana.' Knox Chitiyo, Associate Fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and Chair of the Britain Zimbabwe Society
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