Africa, Another Side of the Coin

Andrew Sardanis was born and educated in colonial Cyprus, worked as a journalist and moved to Northern Rhodesia in 1950. He participated in the independence movement of Zambia and played a major role in the first Administration of the country. After a business career that took him to almost all the sub-Saharan countries he now takes care of the Chaminuka Nature and Wildlife Reserve, near Lusaka, Zambia.

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Map of Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
Introduction

PART I
1. Cyprus, island of ‘beauty and longing’
2. Northern Rhodesia, land of the bwanas and… ‘boys’
3. ‘The roots of heaven’
4. The officers and… clerks
5. The rider mounts the horse
6. Strikes and boycotts
7. Governor Benson’s ‘democracy’
8. Colonies in revolt
9. Signs of change
10. The horse bucks…

PART II
11. Dancing the Isaiah and the Chachacha
12. The ‘boys’ woo the bwanas
13. Back to the roots
14. A vital election
15. The reluctant candidate
16. Celebrations and intimidation on the hustings
17. Dashed hopes?
18. Harry rises to the occasion
19. The black coalition
20. … and the rider is thrown off
21. ‘One Zambia, One Nation’

PART III
22. The first steps
23. Development or contingency planning?
24. Hostages to the Rhodesian sanctions
25. Development and dissent
26. UNIP in turmoil attacks the Chief Justice
27. Rhodesian spies and intimidation
28. Economic awakening
29. Mixing business with government
30. The mines under government control
31. Confusion and pressures
32. Moving on

PART IV
33. In King Tiny’s court
34. ‘One-party participatory democracy’!
35. A costly mistake
36. Hunted
37. A gentlemen’s coup
38. Paralysis and stagnation
39. A rude awakening
40. Taking stock
Epilogue

Appendix: The mining agreements
Select bibliography
Index