Book Review: Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
By Andrew Field The British Empire has been overly criticised, so much so that some, like the book’s author, view this as a “slanderous caricature that equates British colonialism with…
Win in Washington
REVIEW: WIN IN WASHINGTON 1965-1978 Win Hooper was an artist-a very good artist. but to narrowly confine her art to the products of paint brushes is to do her an…
The Last Rhodesians
Hannes Wessels, Reading this seminal work on the history of these unusual people and the country they helped construct, has been both enlightening and distressing. ‘Last of the Rhodesians; Society…
The History of the Rhodesian Game Department
by Hannes Wessels For anyone genuinely interested in African wildlife and conservation Mike Bromwitch’s updated second edition of the 80-year history of the Rhodesian Game Department is not only hugely…
Jack Malloch; African Aviation Legend
Coming out of a country that produced a surprising surfeit of colourful characters Jack Malloch is surely one of the most extraordinary. Raised simply, in a religious Rhodesian family and…
Give A Dam; And Be Damned!
by Hannes Wessels With the world in a state of high dudgeon over BLM (Black Lives Matter), the alleged ongoing, debilitating effects of white supremacy and the crime of colonialism,…
“Foreign Native”.
by Hannes Wessels RW Johnson’s new book, ‘Foreign Native’, is enlightening, entertaining but also disturbing. But, like everything he writes, the narrative reeks with honesty. I humbly hold him in…
Rhodes’ Ghost
by Hannes Wessels Reading the second part of Duncan Clarke’s voluminous but quite fascinating study of Cecil Rhodes as the baying mobs of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement compel a…
‘RUDE’. by Katie Hopkins.
by Hannes Wessels The title of this book should not have been ‘Rude,’ but ‘Bloody Rude’, because it is; but it is also bloody funny and it is also sad,…
“Rhodes’ Ghost”
by Hannes Wessels I don’t know how many books have been written about Cecil John Rhodes, but Duncan Clarke’s magisterial, ‘Rhodes’ Ghost’ might be close to the final word on…