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Colonial states and African societies: Southern Rhodesia / Rhodesia / Zimbabwe

Resources for the study of African colonial history including Belgian, British, and French colonial history.

Southern Rhodesia / Rhodesia / Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe under colonial rule, in Government reports, 1897-1980
East Ardsley, Wakefield, United Kingdom : Microform Academic Publishers, [2015]
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/14893343

  • Online Zimbabwe / Southern Rhodesia departmental annual reports on Administration (includes Native Affairs), Finance, Judicial and Police, Natural Resources, Social Services (includes education, health, labor), Transport and Public Works, Communications and Post Office Savings, Mining, etc.

 

Southern Rhodesia. Legislative Council.
Debates in the Legislative Counci
l
Library has: [1914-23] Not complete.
Hoover Library Stacks
Items must be requested in advance and viewed on-site.
Call No. G.D. RHODESIA, SOUTHERN
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/398305

 

Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Federal Assembly.
Debates ..
..
Salisbury.
Hoover Library has: 1-20, 1954-63//
Items must be requested in advance and viewed on-site.
Call No. GD. RHODESIA .NYASALAND FED
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/398298

 

Southern Rhodesia. Parliament. Legislative Assembly.
Parliamentary debates

Hoover Library has: 61-76, 1965-70//
Hoover Call No. G.D. RHODESIA
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/398362

 

Southern Rhodesia. Parliament. House of Assembly.
Parliamentary debates - House of Assembly

Library has: 1966-1979
Hoover Library Stacks
Items must be requested in advance and viewed on-site.
Call No. G.D. RHODESIA
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/39835

 

Rhodesia, the Senate.
Parliamentary debates

Library has: 1971-1979
Items must be requested in advance and viewed on-site
Hoover Library
Call No. G.D. RHODESIA
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/398356

 

Rhodesia, the Senate
Parliamentary debates

Salisbury, Rhodesia : The Senate, [1971-1979]
Holdings need to be verified.
Library has: v.12:no.2(1979:June 27), v.12:no.19(1979:Sept.26), v.12:no.28(1979:Dec.11)
SAL 1/2
Call No. J725 .A51A V.12:NO.2,19,28 1979
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/516983

 

Zimbabwe. Parliament. House of Assembly.
Parliamentary debates

1980-1989. Not complete.
SAL 1/2
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/515655
 

Zimbabwe. Parliament. Senate.
Parliamentary debates

SAL 1/2  has: 
J725 .A52 V.4-5     
J725 .A52 V.2-3     
J725 .A52 V.1, 1980
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/515665

 

Zimbabwe. Parliament. Senate.
Parliamentary debates (Official report unrevised)

SAL 1/2 and 3 has 1984-1989. Not complete.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/51567

 

Government publications relating to Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1963, and to the
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953-1963 [
electronic resource] /
introduction by Andrew Roberts
11 pages Finding aid for a huge microform collection at the Center for Research Libraries.
Includes British South African Company documents, the Government Gazettes,
Annual reports, Command papers, Official yearbooks, trade annuals.
http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b2827903~S1

 

 

Newspapers
Stanford has newspapers from Rhodesia and Zimbabwe. A few examples are below.

Rhodesia Herald / Herald
Green Library has print and microfilm issues
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=search&q=rhodesia+herald


Nineteenth Century collections online [electronic resource].
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9637955
Has 1910 digital issues of The Rhodesia Herald.
select the archive - "Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture"
then select "Colonial Africa Newspapers from the British Library"
which has 1910 issues of The Rhodesia Herald

and

Transvaal & Southern-Rhodesia
has the Jan. 1934, Volume: VIII , Issue: 1 issue only
select the archive  "Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture"
Select Yale Divinity School Periodicals in Africa
then
Transvaal & Southern-Rhodesia

 

The Center for Research Libraries has Rhodesia / Zimbabwe newspapers on microfilm.
A few issues are online. One newspaper is the Rhodesia Herald first published Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 29th., 1892).
http://catalog.crl.edu/search/Y?SEARCH=rhodesia%20herald&searchscope=1
 

 

Other Primary Resources

Pamphlets and serials on Ethiopia, Rhodesia, and, Rhodesia and Nyasaland [microform] : collected by Richard Greenfield, 1958-1965
Hoover Library Stacks
Items must be requested in advance and viewed on-site.
1 Microfilm reel
DT371 .P188 MFILM     
DT371 .P188 INDEX of 2 leaves
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3013048

 

Rhodesia and Nyasaland law reports
Stanford Law School Library
Call No. KQE514 .R46 
Call No. KQE514 .R46 INDEX
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2158551
 

The Center for Research Libraries has the title below available to Stanford users thru Interlibrary Loan.

Rhodesia and Nyasaland political ephemera, 1956-1963 [microform]
Alt Title(s)   Title on microfilm container: Northern Rhodesia United National Independence Party, political ephemera, 1956-1963
Add Author(s)    United National Independence Party (Northern Rhodesia)
Physical description    1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm
http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b1853369~S1
The 4 page Inventory is online at the Center for Research Libraries