Voices of Liberation: Edson Sithole: Law, Liberation and the Cost of Dissent

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

210x148mm

Pages:

256pp

ISBN-13:

978-0-7969-2708-8

Publish Year:

November 2025

Rights:

World Rights

Foreword (by Hon. Chris Mbanga)

Acknowledgements

About the Author/Collator

Abbreviations

Timeline

Introduction

Part 1: Edson Sithole’s Life

Part 2: Edson Sithole’s Voice

Section I: Decolonization and Pan Africanism: Sithole’s Wind of Change

Section II: Factionalism: Sithole’s Struggles-within-the-Struggle

Section II: Political Prisoner: Sithole’s Captivity

Section IV: Pragmatism: Sithole’s Search for a Settlement with White Rhodesia:

Past 3: Edson Sithole’s Legacy

Bibliography (Selected Key Writings by Edson Sithole)

Index

Brooks Marmon holds an MA in History from Clark University (USA) and a PhD in African Studies from the University of Edinburgh (UK). He is a research associate in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria. He has been intrigued by Zimbabwean history since writing a report on the country in primary school. This interest has been sustained through regular visits to the country since 2005. In addition to numerous journal articles, he is the author of Pan-Africanism Versus Partnership: African Decolonisation in Southern Rhodesian Politics, 1950-63 (Springer 2023).