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Secondary Industry and Settler Colonialism

Southern Rhodesia before and after the Unilateral Declaration of Independence

IAN PHIMISTER and VICTOR GWANDE
African Economic History, January 2017, 45 (2) 85-112; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.45.2.85
IAN PHIMISTER
Ian Phimister is Senior University Research Professor and Head of the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in South Africa. An economic historian who has written extensively on Central and Southern African topics, as well as on patterns of British overseas investment, he has held positions at the Universities of Zambia, Cape Town, Oxford, and Sheffield.
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VICTOR GWANDE
Victor Gwande is currently a PhD Candidate in Africa Studies at the International Studies Group, Center for Africa Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa. He also holds a BA Honours in Economic History from the University of Zimbabwe and an MA in Africa Studies from the University of the Free State. He has research interests in economic and business history, youth, democracy and governance. He has also published in regional journals.
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The causes, course and consequences of the unilateral declaration of independence [UDI] by Southern Rhodesia have generated a large scholarly literature. Less frequently accounted for is the growth of the Colony’s secondary industrial sector, for a time the most sophisticated in Africa north of the Limpopo. Almost entirely lacking is analysis of the relationship, structural and political, between the two. Without an already existing secondary industrial base, UDI would have been impossible if not unthinkable. While some attention has been paid to the political attitudes of industrialists, no serious attempt has been made to identify the composition, capitalization, ownership, or product range of the manufacturing sector in the first half of the 1960s. In placing the two side by side, this article seeks to cast new light on the business and political dynamics shaping Central Africa during the era of decolonization.

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