Author Archive for: ‘Terrance Ranger’

I greatly enjoyed seeing The Rose of Rhodesia and reading the excellent essays collected here. But my perspective is a little different from theirs. I am a historian of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and particularly of the 1896-97 uprisings and of the Matopos hills (see Ranger 1967 and 1999). So when I watched the film I read it as though it was a commentary on …