From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe by Lawrence Vambe
From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe by Lawrence Vambe
Hardcover, ISBN 9780434825417
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 1976 First edition.
Condition: Very Good + Hardcover with good DJ and covered in a Cellophane cover. Slight edge wear on DJ.
1st Edition. This first edition of 290 pages is a biography of Lawrence Vambe and his rise in journalism.
Vambe was born in Chishawasha village. His mother died when he was a baby due to the influenza epidemic. He was then raised by Jesuit missionaries.
Education
He attended Kutama College, the same school as Robert Mugabe, before embarking on teacher training in South Africa at South African Native College, which became University of Fort Hare.
Journalism career
He quit teaching after five years, and decided to become a journalist. He joined African newspapers where he rose through the ranks to become editor-in-chief. Besides an illustrious journalism career, Vambe also developed a reputation as an important black intellectual who significantly contributed to the struggle against colonialism in Rhodesia. He published two books, An Ill-Fated People: Zimbabwe Before and After Rhodes (1972) and From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe (1976). This made him one of the pioneering Black writers from Zimbabwe. He was awarded the MBE in 1959. In the 1980s he was one of the founders of the Britain-Zimbabwe Society, an organisation which continues to this day.
