Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: The Basotho and the Politics of Belonging in Southern Rhodesia; 2. Evangelists, Migrants and 'Progressive' Africans; 3. Colonial Displacements and the Establishment of Native Purchase Areas; 4. KuBhetere: Bethel Farm and the Basotho's Belonging in the Dewure Purchase Areas; 5. Building a Community School: The Rise and Fall of Bethel School; 6. Adherents and Rebels: The Basotho and the Dutch Reformed Church Missionaries; Epilogue: Uncertainty and the Basotho's Quest for Belonging; Bibliography; Index
Summary
A new history of the Basotho migrants in Zimbabwe that illuminates identity politics, African agency and the complexities of social integration in the colonial period
