BOOK 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.