ZAMBEZIAThe Journal of theUniversity of ZimbabweVolume 9, No. ii, 1981ZAMBEZIAThe Journalofthe University of ZimbabweVolume 9, No. ii, 1981Edited byR. S. ROBERTSUNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE, SALISBURYZambezia: The Journal of the University of ZimbabweISSN 0379-0622 = Zambezia® University of Zimbabwe, 1981Photoset by BOOKSET (PVT.) LTD.Printed by BOOKPRINT (PVT.) LTD.both of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe,ZAMBEZI AThe publication of Zambezia, the bi-annual journal of the University ofZimbabwe, has been made possible by the generous support of the PublicationsCommittee of the University. The main focus of the journal, as its name implies, isSouth Central Africa; but inaugural lectures and articles of a more general interestare also published. Monograph supplements to Zambezia, of which there may beup to eight in a year, cover the main disciplines in the University (Agriculture,Commerce and Law, Education, Engineering, the Humanities, Medicine,Science, Social Studies), and do not necessarily have the same regional focus asZambezia itself.ORDERS A complete catalogue of these publications may be obtained withoutcharge on application to the Publications Officer, University of Zimbabwe,P.O. Box MP 45, Mount Pleasant, Salisbury, Zimbabwe. Standing Orders for thejournal and/or supplements, under which an invoice is sent prior to dispatch of theorder, are welcomed.CONTENTSThe History of the Shona Protest Song:A Preliminary Study G. P. Kahari 79Remarks on Some Syntactic Noun Featuresin Shona N. C. Dembetembe 103Suggestions of Bureaucracy in Korekore Religion:Putting the Ethnography Straight M.F.C.Bourdillon 119American Scholarship Programmes for AfricanStudents, 1959-75 N. T. Chideya 137RESEARCH REPORTSInvisible Women Lucy Bonnerjea 155Supply Response to Prices of Maize, Wheatand Tobacco, 1961-75 F. M. Masanzu 167ESSAY REVIEWSChurch Adaptation to the New Social Orderin Zimbabwe T. J. Mqftco 171Olive Schreiner and the Liberal Tradition M. C. Steele 111BOOK REVIEWS 183