Acknowledgements

Glossary of abbreviations

Chronology (or timeline of Ndabaningi Sithole’s life)

Introduction: The Gospel According to Ndabaningi Sithole – Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Part 1: His Life

Finding my way

Prison Life

Part 2: His Voice

Political Writings

Statement in response to the charges brought by Rev Garfield Todd (1948)

We are our own Liberators (speech at the inaugural ZANU Congress, 1964)

On the assassination of Herbert Chitepo (1976)

Mugabe’s False Claim: Memo to President Samora Machel (1976)

March 3 Agreement: Interview (1978)

Zimbabwe Year of Independence

Literary Writings

Voice of America transcript: Sithole on his writing career (1975)

Obed Mutezo (first chapter)

To fish where everybody fishes (Ingwane)

On the precipice’s edge (Roots of a revolution)

Sons and Daughters of the Soil (1977)

Two Poems: The enemy are paper tigers (poem); ZANLA (poem)

Selected Correspondence

Letter to Herbert Chitepo (1970)

Letter to Nelson Mandela (1986)

Letter to Tobaiwa Mudede, Registra, Zimbabwe (1996)

Letter to Joshua Nkomo (1997)

Political activism

Extract: ZANU vs ZANU PF Copyright infringement lawsuit (1987)

Warned and cautioned statement, charges for attempting to assassinate Mugabe (1995)

Banana must be tried (no date)

The new social order for Zimbabwe (no date)

Churu farm: A Chronicle of Despair (1994)

Part 3: His Legacy

The Discovery of Ndabaningi Sithole

Ndabaningi Sithole Road in Accra, Ghana

Our Father, Memories from Daughters

Text permissions and photo credits

Selected Bibliography of Sithole’s writings and speeches

About the author

Index