Notes and References
Notes and References Introduction I. D. Harvey, The Condition of Postmodemity (Oxford, 1990), p. 240. 2. S. Ousmane, God's Bits of Wood (London, 1986), p. 32. 3. The regional railway map was completed in 1931, when the Benguella Railway Company, which linked Katanga with the Angolan coastal port of Lobito Bay, opened. The Chemin de Fer du Haut-Katanga connected the Benguella railway and the Rhodesian railway system, which now sat at the centre of a railway network which encompoassed the south, east and west coasts of colonial Africa. But the Benguella route was the poor relation. The BSA Co. always saw it as a threat to the stranglehold of the Rhodesian railway system over the copper traffic which came to be its lifeblood. Chapter 2 describes how that threat was nullified. 4. I.R. Phimister, An Economic and Social History of Zimbabwe, 1890-1948. Capital Accumulation and Class Struggle (London, 1988), pp. 118-9; Sir T. Gregory, Emest Oppenheimer and the Economic Development of Southem Africa (London, 1962), p. 435. 5. For a more detailed exposition of the origins and character of this revisionist historiography, see B. Freund, The Making of Contemporary Africa (London, 1984), ch. I. 6. L. Vail, 'The Making of an Imperial Slum: Nyasaland and its Railways', Journal of African History, XVI (1975). See also L. Vail, 'Railway Development and Colonial Underdevelopment: The Nyasaland Case', in R. Palmer and N. Parsons (eds), The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa (London, 1977). 7. J. McCracken, 'Labour in Nyasaland: An Assessment of the 1960 Railway Workers Strike', Journal of Southern African Studies, XIV (1988); T.
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