158BOOK REVIEWSmurdered him in 1979 after the local guerrilla commander had found no cause toproceed against such a man. These two books by his friend, the director of SilveiraHouse, are a pious record of this martyr.R.S.R.Guy and Molly CIutton-Brock: Reminiscences from Their Family andFriends on the Occasion of Guy's Eightieth Birthday. Harare, LongmanZimbabwe, 1987, x, 142 pp., Z$ 10,50.The Victory of Chief Rekayi Tangwena By H. Moyana. Harare, LongmanZimbabwe, 1987, vi, 49 pp., Z$2,95.The long sub-title of the first book under review indicates its nature. The forty-sixcontributors have written thirty-six short appreciations about half of which dealwith the Clutton-Brocks's time in Zimbabwe. Factually there is little new to whatthey themselves, P. Chater and D. Mutasa have already published, but it is awarm, fitting tribute to a couple who spoke up for African rights from an earlydate.The second booklet, the first in a new series, Makers of Zimbabwean History,deals with a famous protagonist of African rights whose stand against thegovernment and its land policies was often blamed on the Clutton-Brocks by theRhodesia Front. Again there is little new in this publication as it is largely are-write of the author's chapter on the subject in his The Political Economy ofLand in Zimbabwe (Mambo Press, 1984). Common to both versions is theauthor's ignorance of, or refusal to admit, the evidence cited by Isaacman in 1976that the Tangwena came into Southern Rhodesia as late as 1902 after their refusalto join their paramount Makombe in his resistance to the Portuguese. This fact, ofcourse, invalidates Tangwena's argument of historic, ancestral rights to his land,but it had no effect on his legal rights under Section 93 of the LandApportionment Act (upon which his appeal to the High Court was won) and,furthermore, in no way diminishes his courage in asserting the moral-politicalargument.R.S.R.The Cross between Rhodesia and Zimbabwe: Racial Conflict in Rhodesia,1962-1979 ByD. A. Mungazi. New York, Vantage Press, 1981, xiv, 338 pp., noprice indicated.The Road to Zimbabwe 1890-1980 By A Verrier, London, Jonathan Cape,1986, xv, 364 pp., £16,00.The titles of these books (Verrier's is essentially the same as that of C. M. B. Utete'spublished eight years earlier) are reminiscent of that spate of works on this themethat I surveyed in 'Last days of White Rhodesia' {ante (1983), XI, 73-8).Mungazi's is a chronicle of events compiled largely from American newpaperreports and has nothing new to say on the subject. Verrier's book, however, is acut above the average of those reviewed earlier and some attempt has been madeto consult British Cabinet Papers and Sir Roy Welensky's papers. On the otherBOOK REVIEWS159hand, it covers exactly the same ground as the others; and despite the benefit ofseveral years of Zimbabwean independence and new publications to guide him,the author faithfully follows his predecessors, both British and Zimbabwean, intelling us more of the policies of the British, American and South Africangovernments than of the priorities of the Rhodesian government or the dynamicsof the White political economy there.R.S.R.An Act of Treason: Rhodesia 1965. By J. Todd. Harare, Longman Zimbabwe,1982, 168 pp. Z$4.26.The Right to Say No. By J. Todd. Harare, Longman Zimbabwe, 1987, 204 pp.Z$9.50.Black behind Bars. By D. N. E. Mutasa, Harare, Longman Zimbabwe, 1983, x,150 pp. Z$6.95.These books are all re-issues of works published in Britain (in 1966, 1972 and1974, respectively) and banned in Rhodesia until after Independence.All three are republished basically unchanged but the first, a survey of thebackground to U.D.I., has a short introduction by S. G. Mpofu. The second, adescription of the events surrounding the Pearce Commission, is unchanged. Thethird, originally entitled Rhodesian Black behind Bars, has a new introduction bythe Hon. M. Nyagumbo. They were reviewed in this journal when they originallyappeared {ante 1973), III, 103-4 and (1976) IV, 125-6. Longman Zimbabwe isperforming a useful service in making these books available to local readers.R.S.R.God Gave Growth: The History of the Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe1903-1980 By H. Soderstrom. Uppsala, Swedish Institute of MissionaryResearch, Studia Missionalia 40, 1984, x, 237 pp. Z$8.10.This is the history of one of the smaller mission churches in Zimbabwe, theEvangelical Lutheran Church, which began in Zululand. Its chosen area wasMberengwa and apart from its following migrants to the towns it has notextended greatly beyond its original base (the Lutheran missions in Chivi andGutu established by the Berlin Missionary Society were absorbed by the DutchReformed Church). The author, who spent some ten years in Zimbabwe, haswritten an interesting survey of a church which was early to take on aZimbabwean identity and to take an interest in African advancement, Africanmusic and, in the person of H. von Sickard, in local history; as such, it is a usefulcomplement to P. Zachrisson's An African Area in Change: Belingwe 1894-1946 (Gothenburg, 1978).R.S.R.