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in the 1880s and 1890s. Rhodes must convince his ancestors that he has been just and honest in his dealings with the Ndebele king Lobengula and his people, while Lobengula is required to explain to the ancestral spirits just how he had lost the land to the white man. The novel was banned in Rhodesia.
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He graduated with honours from Fort Hare in 1948 and returned to Southern Rhodesia to become a teacher. While pursuing his teaching career he began to make plans for
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outlined the white man’s conquest of Rhodesia, the struggles of the native people during the conquest, and the clash between
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minister and nationalist politician, and his wife, Grace Mano, a Methodist evangelist. The family lived in
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and in Mashonaland during Samkange’s childhood. He took his higher education at Adams College in
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politics, running unsuccessfully for political office on two occasions. He held high offices in
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and the most prolific of the first generation of black Zimbabwean creative writers in English.
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in 1979, concentrating instead on his writing. With his wife, Tommie Anderson, he wrote
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in Rhodesia would never accept any multiracial options for the country's government.
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firm. He also taught African history at various universities in the US, including
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Samkange moved to the United States where he took further education at the
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from that institution, he worked as a journalist and then opened a
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Samkange returned to Rhodesia in 1978 and became involved in
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The Literary Encyclopedia: Brief bio of Stanlake Samkange
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Stanlake Samkange
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Zimbabwean
historiographer
educationist
journalist
African nationalist
dynasty
Zvimba
Mashonaland
British South Africa Company-administered
Southern Rhodesia
Thompson Samkange
Methodist
Bulawayo
Matabeleland
Natal
University of Fort Hare
Alice
Nyatsime College
missionaries
white minority
Indiana University at Bloomington
Ph.D.
public relations
Harvard University
African American studies
Northeastern University, Boston

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