Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization

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In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, reasonably than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to the policies and practices of the end of empire. In Unpopular Sovereignty, Luise White shows that the exception that used to be Rhodesian independence did not, in fact, make the state that different from new nations in different places in Africa: indeed, this history of Rhodesian political practices reveals one of the crucial commonalities of mid-twentieth-century occupied with place and race and what sort of government will have to link the two.  

White locates Rhodesia’s independence within the era of decolonization in Africa, a time of great intellectual ferment in ideas about race, citizenship, and freedom. She shows that racists and reactionaries were just as fascinated with questions of sovereignty and legitimacy as African nationalists were and took special care to design voter qualifications that could preserve their version of legal statecraft. Examining how the Rhodesian state managed its own governance and electoral politics, she casts an oblique and revealing light during which to rethink the narratives of decolonization.

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