Books by Duncan Clarke
Cecil Rhodes’ Library
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Africana, History, Biography, Social Science, Literature, Federation, Governance, Law
Geography, Art, Science, Architecture, Classics, Novella, Works of Reference
For one hundred and twenty years, a secreted Catalogue, listing Cecil Rhodes’ books, seen by privileged few, still unpublished, existed at Groote Schuur in the Cape. Rarely visited in the last thirty years, hidden in plain sight, rarely exposed in biography, ignored by critics, this literary trove offers revelatory insight into the mind and thoughts of the late Victorian Age’s most prominent figure. Groote Schuur’s assemblage of 2,554 texts was the most notable library holding in 19th century Africa, and this collection shaped Rhodes’ thoughts, ideas, acts, and decisions in southern-central Africa.
Rhodes is revealed as an adept bibliophile, connoisseur and itinerant nomadic who relied on literature and cartography for ideas, and thoughts in speeches, as Cape Colony premier, 1890-96, and founder of Rhodesia. His endeavours brought literature to Zambesia, then a literary desert devoid of alphabet, pen, writing, or books, from the San to the late 19th century when missionaries, hunters and explorers entered the Great Plateau.
The private library acquired and curated at Groote Schuur was bequeathed for posterity. Cecil Rhodes’ Library is the first-ever expose of this unique trove that covers Cape to Cairo, and Classics from antiquity to 20th century avant-garde literature. Rhodes never crafted an autobiography but scripted a vast ‘grey’ literature and was an avid collector of rare cartography on Africa and the world.
Publisher: Royal Sable Publishing, April 2024.
On Amazon Worldwide
The Quiet Rhodesian: Silent Servant, 1909-1981
The story of Gerald Bryan Sheil O’ Cleary Clarke, born in Gwelo, who spent 43 years in Rhodesian government, including five years with the 5th Southern Rhodesian Armoured Brigade, 1940-45, in Rhodesia, Kenya, Abyssinia, South Africa, Egypt, Palestine and Italy.
This ‘Quiet Rhodesian’ served five Rhodesian prime ministers, including Sir Godfrey Huggins, 1950-52, and was Cabinet Secretary and Secretary to the Prime Ministers: Garfield Todd, Sir Edgar Whitehead, Winston Field, and Ian Smith, 1953-70, while also involved with the Central Intelligence Organisation, 1963-70. The recipient of six medals from World War II, he was invested with honours twice by Queen Elizabeth II, with an ISO and CMG, and received Rhodesia’s highest civilian award.
Accidental Author: Fifty Years Writing Africa and the World
The book, Accidental Author: Fifty Years Writing, Africa and the World, 2023, tells the story of the author’s writing over fifty years-on Rhodesia, Southern Africa plus on Africa, and the world, including in biography. It is published by Royal Sable Publishing, and found on Amazon in both Softback and on Kindle.
Accidental Author tells the tale of unforeseen twists in life and history that shaped the writer’s fifty years of writing in multiple forms. The text traces an ordinary life growing up in Central Africa; turbulent times leading to writing for academe; then as a one-man band; when unemployable, later for survival; as well as when in time employed; and then out in the cold once more.
The outcome was the founding of a firm that depended on texts written and sold, and advisory reports written, while shaping text and images for strategy briefings and speaking at hundreds of conferences that played a key part in the global oil game. Advisory work worldwide engaged more than a hundred institutions in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Russia. Finally, the scribbler was to author several books and establish an independent publishing brand, Royal Sable Publishing, in 2021.
Mishaps, mistakes, and accidents in history marked this nomadic journey from neophyte to writer with texts scripted for private or public record, and corporate interests. Personalities the author met shaped ideas and texts, along with the unwritten word, in hundreds of speeches made, with an enormous literature of published and unpublished works in nonfiction.
From undistinguished literary origins, the author initially wrote in academe, on economics, then Africa in the Cold War, and inside the Geneva-based firm owned by ‘The Man from Havana’ who created world oil’s intellectual crown jewels.
Thereafter, the author founded Global Pacific & Partners, one cog in world oil and Africa for 37 years, The firm built an advisory practice and public record with landmark events that spanned six continents. This literary safari was shaped by travels to 127 countries, over 200 cities, and all continents during the Cold War and beyond, including inside fractious Third World states.
The Last Rhodesians: Society Adrift
The Last Rhodesians: Society Adrift, March 2022, First Edition, published by Royal Sable Publishing, is distributed in South Africa by Protea Books, and is available for sale in South Africa and for overseas shipment by Protea Books. The book is available on Amazon worldwide (April, 2022) in Softback and on Kindle.
‘I am in awe of this portrait of white Rhodesia. The mastery of the detail is astonishing, the sheer intellectual power deployed is extraordinary’, Michael Holman, Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent, EnvelopeBooks, 2020.
An evolutionary saga, The Last Rhodesians is the definitive insight on this culture’s origins, identity and imprint in Africa. Then 16 years of war led to the demise, sunset and ‘fall’ of Rhodesia. Negotiations ended the state in 1979: but Rhodesians ‘never died’.
The war was fought in numerous bush battles, across adjacent states, in espionage, sanctions-busting, for rural hearts and minds, and in covert diplomacy. Fault lines in history, with Cold War powers in Moscow and Peking – and East Bloc belligerents, ethno-nationalist armies and Western interests – coalesced in revolutionary war.
This multi-ethnic society – tagged ‘the jewel of Africa’ - bequeathed an inheritance that Zimbabwe squandered. Its inheritors crafted a failing state beset by genocide, economic regression and social malaise. Yet its economic bedrock of 90 years, hidden or unacknowledged, still exists. Zimbabwe was birthed from those legacies.
Literature, art, poetry, icons, images, symbols, lingua franca and cyber-Rhodesiana sustain this social identity worldwide. The Last Rhodesians provides critical review of this culture as seen by eminent authors, historians, novelists, journalists, thinkers, politicians, soldiers, troopies, spies, diplomats, poets, satirists, academics, cartoonists, economists, ‘Rhodies’, ‘Whenwes’, and foreign critics - in hundreds of works, fiction and non-fiction, documentaries, music and film, about Africa’s ‘white tribe’ of ‘scatterlings’, found in 60 countries.
Those remaining Rhodesians in Zimbabwe are under 5 per cent of Rhodesians worldwide, and only 0.07 per cent of Zimbabwe’s entire populace. Fifty years of Rhodesian exoduses marked this ‘disappearance’.
The ‘House of Stone’, the inheritor state, remains. After its false dawn, the ‘jungle grew back’, leaving an imperfect future for all.
The Last Rhodesians provides definitive insight on this unique culture’s origins, identity and imprints in Africa. It’s an evolutionary saga of adversity and economic success that after 16 years of civil war led to the demise, sunset and ‘fall’ of Rhodesia. In this odyssey, negotiated settlement brought an end to the state; but Rhodesians ‘never died’.
The war was fought in hundreds of bush battles, across adjacent states, in espionage, secret sanctions-busting, for rural hearts and minds, and in covert diplomacy. Fault lines in ancient history and hostile Cold War powers in Moscow and Peking – with East Bloc belligerents, African states, ethno-nationalist armies and allied Western interests – coalesced in revolutionary war against Rhodesians.
This multi-ethnic society – tagged ‘the jewel of Africa’ - bequeathed an inheritance that Zimbabwe squandered. Its presidents crafted a failing state beset by brutal ethnic genocide, economic regression and social malaise. Yet the economic bedrock of 90 years from 1890, hidden or unacknowledged, is still found, as Zimbabwe was birthed from Rhodesia and still survives on many of its legacies.
Zimbabwe scrubbed Rhodesians from the country. The residual Rhodies or Zimbos remaining in Zimbabwe are under 5 per cent of Rhodesians worldwide, and 0.07 per cent of all people in Zimbabwe: about as few as in 1900.
Serial Rhodesian exoduses during the last 50 years marked these ‘disappearances’. Still, the originating culture, its constructs, literature, art, poetry, icons, images, symbols, lingua franca and cyber-Rhodesiana sustain this social identity worldwide.
Insights depicted in The Last Rhodesians are based on critical review of its vast literature: by eminent authors, historians, novelists, journalists, thinkers, politicians, soldiers, troopies, spies, diplomats, poets, satirists, cartoonists, economists, Rhodies, Whenwes and a legion of foreign critics - in hundreds of works, of fiction and non-fiction, in documentaries, music and film, made about a society adrift, Africa’s ‘white tribe’ of ‘scatterlings’ now found in 60 countries.
The ‘House of Stone’, the inheritor state, remains. After its false dawn in its savannah paradise, the ‘jungle grew back’, leaving an imperfect future for all.
It was 511 years ago when the first white man, Antonio Fernandes, entered Zambesia, and 167 years since the first pre-Rhodesians arrived. Rhodes landed in Africa 150 years ago and it’s been 120 years since his burial. Rhodesia acquired self-government 100 years in the past, and Federation ended 70 years ago, while Ian Smith declared UDI in 1965, 57 years ago. Zimbabwe’s independence was in 1980.
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Rhodes’ Ghost
The Conquest of Zambesia
Royal Sable Publishing - On Amazon, 2020
Rhodes Ghost: The Conquest of Zambesia, July 2020, First Edition, is part of the Royal Sable Publishing stable, and is distributed in South Africa by Protea Books - see https://proteabooks.com/index.php/rhodes-ghost-the-conquest-of-zambesia.html.
The book is available for sale in South Africa, and for overseas shipment, by Protea Books, and Takealot. Rhodes’ Ghost is available worldwide on Amazon on Softback and Kindle. For more, and Contents, see www.RhodesGhost.com -
Duncan Clarke in conversation with Dan Snow, 26th August 2020: see - https://play.acast.com/s/dansnowshistoryhit/cecilrhodes -
Book Review: Voice from the Grave, The Citizen, 10 September 2020
For discussion on Cecil Rhodes with Hannes Wessels, see YouTube African History Unauthorised ep02 Rhodes - YouTube
With Dan Snow, the British Historian, in discussion with Duncan Clarke on Cecil Rhodes: https://play.acast.com/s/dansnowshistoryhit/cecilrhodes
Zambesia
Feudal States & Dynasties
Denunciations
Rhodes ‘is an Archangel with wings to half the world, Satan with a tail to the other half.’ Mark Twain in Following the Equator, Vol II, 1889
‘It came to pass that Cecil Rhodes died. The Devil claimed him… the gates, doors and windows of Hell proved all too small to take Rhodes in.’ Olive Schreiner, South African writer
‘This young man I like not; he goes too fast for me. He has robbed me of the North. I cannot understand how he manages it, but he never sleeps and he will not smoke.’ President Paul Kruger to General Joubert, 1891
‘Millionaire, a king of finance, the man who was mainly responsible for the Anglo-Boer War.’ Vladimir I Lenin, in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
‘Mr Rhodes, who used the legislature of Cape Colony to support and strengthen the diamond monopoly of De Beers, while from De Beers he financed the Raid, debauched the constituencies of Cape Colony, and bought the public press, in order to engineer the war, which was to win him full possession of his great ‘thought’ the North.’ John A Hobson, Imperialism: A Study, 1902
‘Cecil Rhodes was half a visionary and half a scoundrel. He was an extraordinarily greedy man.’ Lawrence James, historian and writer, in a PBS interview
‘Never before has any individual brought upon himself so many curses and earned such universal hatred from all nations as Cecil Rhodes.’ Emilia Pimenova, in Cecil Rhodes, Napoleon of the Cape, Moscow, June 1900
‘For what was wrong with Rhodes was not that, like Cromwell or Hildebrand, he made huge mistakes, nor even that he committed great crimes. It was that he committed these crimes and errors in order to spread certain ideas… Rhodes had no principles whatever to give to the world.’ GK Chesterton, The Sultan
Indaba with Indunas, 1896
Jameson’s Folly
Rhodes’ Burial, 1902
“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 this extraordinary man”
Southern Africa c. 1890
Rhodes’ Journeys North to Rhodesia, 1891-1902
Trails and Treks in Zambesia, 1890
Praise for Rhodes
Rhodes was … ‘a very remarkable man’, Queen Victoria in The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1931
‘Our grandsons will say of us with envy: “How lucky they were! They were contemporaries of the great Cecil Rhodes!” Lord Salisbury, 1899
‘The death of Cecil Rhodes, which occurred on March 13, new style 26, has brought to his grave one of the most outstanding figures of modern Great Britain.’ Russian Embassy, London, 1902
‘I wish I could have met Rhodes … he was a very great figure. He did much that was very good and his death had been a tragedy.’ Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, in a Letter to Earl Grey, 7 April 1902
‘Nelson Mandela, posed beside the portrait of Rhodes, said, “Cecil, now you and I are going to work together.” The Mandela-Rhodes Foundation was born’. Charles Moore, 16 April 2019, Telegraph.co.uk
‘Rhodes remains one of the great men of history’, Illustrated London News, May 1980
‘The desire to have Rhodes removed from history springs from a tyrannical political correctness that denies that Rhodes did anything good, and that any celebration of his memory can be justified. But the truth is that there was a lot of good about Rhodes, and that he is a man worth remembering. He may not have been a saint, but … he is certainly not worthy of damnation.’ Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith, 29 December 2015
‘My father was tolerant … and could easily have worked with Cecil Rhodes; in many ways they were quite similar … The idea of uniting them at World’s View is not that the memory of one should dominate. Although when the sun is in a certain position my father’s statue would of course quite naturally cast his shadow on Rhodes’s grave.’ Joshua Nkomo’s son Michael Sibangilizwe Nkomo, May 2019
‘In spite of the many millions of words that have been spent on this enigmatic man, he still remains an enigma.’ George Shepperson, an English Africanist, November 1983
Last Testament
I wish neither to write my own hagiography, nor to damn my life, efforts or times as a reflective genuflection to post-modernist thought that reads history out of context. It’s a custom that has become fashionable, but one I cannot abide.
My life was what it was: with accomplishments and imperfections, ups and downs. Its flaws, and my errors or misjudgments made, have often been appreciated, if only afterwards, lately roundly damned once revisited in the light of changing times.
When I came to Africa, I was alone and knew only one person there: my brother. When in the Cape I left the land of the living, I had come to know many thousands of all hues: in southern Africa, Zambesia and Rhodesia. Many more knew of me around the world.
The most crucial part of the varied record of my mere forty-eight years on earth, with about three decades of my sojourn spent in southern Africa, consummated my greatest legacy: in my view, the foundation of Rhodesia as a nation state. Its cultural offshoot was the genesis of Rhodesians, their continuity found in Rhodesiana, the lived and living experience of those and more recent times.
All stemmed from initiatives I took to ‘Go North’, to capture Zambesia for civilisation. In one biography written over seventy years after my burial, the publisher’s note said that I had been a man who left the world a legacy that perplexes us still – Rhodesia. Later biographers, historians and writers have dwelt upon my legacies, but none so far has fully engaged with this one, the one I most cherished. It is why I have chosen to write this story.
So, this is the tale I shall dwell upon. It relates mainly to the final years of my short life, mostly manifest in my last dozen years before death. More in bequest and unfolding history followed, Rhodesia for ninety years, while that legacy’s consequence has lasted ever since.
As I tell this tale today, it has been 150 years since I first landed in Africa while momentous events have taken place in the years from my burial in 1902 to the times reflected in modern Rhodesiana.
Africa’s Future: Darkness to Destiny
Africa’s Future: Darkness to Destiny, Profile Books, 2012, tells of the long centuries of trial and tribulation shaping economic evolution in and across Africa’s 55 states, ethnic domains, ecologies and its economies, the cycles involved, drama, slow growth and future potential or prospects.
The author was Speaker at The Guardian SpiegelTent Author Panel on “Rethinking Africa”, at Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2012.
Nominated for Long List Books, Alan Paton Prize, Sunday Times. See https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Alan+Paton+Award+Long+list -
Published by Profile Books, London - 2012.
Africa conceals multiple secrets, including the Holy Grail: explanation of its saga over centuries. Many – economists, experts, politicians, gurus, cognoscenti and glitterati – seek to “fix” Africa.
“A richly detailed review of Africa’s past and what it tells us about the future, providing a sobering view of the realities on the ground. Indispensable for anyone interested in global trends in the 21st century.”
“This is a book that exudes an intense love of subject, and regales the reader with exquisite nuances and fascinating insights.”
“Duncan Clarke’s latest book on Africa sets out to answer tough questions about the continent ... The result is rather like travelling around Africa in the company of a knowledgeable and entertaining guide who draws lessons from the past while mapping out the future. ”
Africa’s Future tells the tale of Africa’s economic evolution, revealing prisms for understanding the continent’s panoramic story, one of triumph over the influences of nature and multiple political tragedies. Its destiny is revealed by embedded history. Over time, the economic fabric has trumped flawed political architecture. Yet no quantum leap is expected.
Africa: Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize
Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize, Profile Books, London, October 2008, and Africa: Crude Continent (2010 with Epilogue), Profile Books, was showcased by TV Film/Documentary in 2010, as scripted by the author, and produced by CNBC-Africa. It tells the story of the complex hundred year historiography of oil and gas in Africa, the corporate players involved, strategies pursued and state involvement in the industry.
Published by Profile Books London - 2010
Business Day Interview with Author on Crude Continent, 21 October, 2008
Africa Crude Continent - film scripted by Duncan Clarke, available on YouTube:
Part-I: https://youtu.be/cdcBZxiuvpY
Part-II: https://youtu.be/MRfVXHQhjDE
Part-III: https://youtu.be/O4T2r_VXgd8
Africa: Acreage and Blocks, 2012
“A highly accomplished work and must-read on Africa and its political economy … in an epic which illuminates Africa’s “inner worlds” and deftly weaves together the continent’s ancient, post-colonial and modern histories … an outstanding work … to delight even old Africa hands in this timely, well-informed and masterful treatise.”
“No other writer matches his unique knowledge of the global energy industry and Africa’s historical, political and economic oil context … required reading for energy industry executives, investment analysts and African policy-makers, diplomats, donor agencies, banks and international lenders. Very good stuff.”
“If I need to know anything about oil in Africa, I go straight to this book”
“La bible du petrole African ... qui détaille près de quarante ans de bataille pour le pétrole africain, du Cap au Caire. Tel un safari à travers le continent, le récit de Duncan Clarke guide le lecteur dans les coulisses de la conquête du brut africain, avec force détails et anecdotes, tantôt humoristiques”
Empires of Oil: Corporate Oil in Barbarian Worlds
The story of resource nationalism inside and around the world oil industry and the seeds of the longue duree drama of how the West lost the Great Game for oil, gas and energy inside the developing world.
Publisher: Profile Books London, 2007.
A complex global oil game is afoot and has always been there. It is now in the mind of the public.
This game is played out between contesting parties: corporate oil, Governments, National Oil Companies, and increasingly a plethora of private and social interests (organised or otherwise), that holds or claims a stake in the future world oil patrimony. It’s a paradigm which will shape modern societies and all others.
This treatise examines Great Power oil rivalries, pressures on US energy policy, Russia’s posture directed by the Kremlin, China’s energy strategy and its voracious state oil companies, and mini empires of oil rising in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The complex shifts to oil resource nationalism reflect an irrevocable squeeze on corporate oil and the West.
“ A masterly rendition, Clarke’s tour du monde provides originality, new thinking, and an unrivalled command of the complex strategies involved”
“The stuff of history, reflecting titanic struggles within world oil geopolitics, in an erudite account of an unfolding drama, providing a striking vision from one of the best non-linear thinkers of our age”
“Duncan Clarke’s fascinating Empires Of Oil is an intriguing story of how one brick at a time the modern barbarians have sought to subdue world corporate oil’s empires, not only in the Middle East, but with initiatives from East Asia and holding many lessons for African governments”
Domains making up modern empires of oil will not be easily ceded to the old order, just as in Rome the Barbarians assaulted the empire to transform world history. Yet, while the ancient oil paradigms from the past have cracked, their inner sanctums and walls have been breached. The Barbarians have arrived at the gates, to command many citadels of oil.
The Battle for Barrels: Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures
The epic story of the mythologies, claims and ideologies underneath the theory and empirical realities behind Peak Oil dogma that mesmerised the world commentariat in the era 1995-2007, and are shown falsified in The Battle for Barrels, while the vested interests in this drama have since moved on to form elements within the modern climatology cult that commands many citadels of power in the West.
Publisher: Profile Books London, 2007
An in-depth treatise on the fashionable global angst over The End of Oil based on non-linear ideas linked to known and unknown elements in world oil history and futures. It shows that the thesis of predicated doom and gloom is much misplaced, and even wholly at odds with upstream potential and global crude supply.
The enquiry questions Peak Oil’s concept, its conventional wisdoms, paradigm and logic, evidence and outcomes, plus presumed impacts.
“This book effectively undermines the validity of the theory of Peak Oil and comprehensively demolishes the arguments of its proponents. It is a “must read” antidote to the gloom and doom conclusions of oil scarcity”
Three Decades in the Long Grass
The story of Global Pacific & Partners, involved in the world oil industry for 37 years, is told in Three Decades in the Long Grass, 2014. It was co-authored with Babette van Gessel, and relates the firm’s history in Africa, Asia, The Americas, MidEast, Europe, Australasia and elsewhere.
Publisher: Global Pacific & Partners, 2014.
Available on Amazon
“This is a tale of the modest beginnings of the firm which became Global Pacific & Partners, its founders and their knowledge, strategy and networks, plus a range of pioneering endeavours, which contributed to the world oil game and Africa’s economic evolution.
Originating in landlocked central-southern Africa, the firm emerged in an unplanned safari over space and time, for 37 years, making an imprint on the history of Africa, Asia, Latin America, MidEast, Europe and elsewhere, while it explored wider worlds, encountering both trials and tribulations, with many notable characters met as travellers on that journey”
Books on Rhodesia, 1974–1980
Research done for the Ph.D. (Economics), University of St Andrews, Scotland, 1975, formed the foundation of several books published by Mambo Press, Gwelo, in the 1970s.
Domestic Workers in Rhodesia: The Economics of Masters and Servants (1974)
Contract Workers and Underdevelopment in Rhodesia (1974)
Unemployment and Economic Structure in Rhodesia (1976)
The Economics of African Old Age Subsistence in Rhodesia (1977)
The Distribution of Income and Wealth in Rhodesia (1977)
Agricultural and Plantation Workers in Rhodesia (1977)
Thereafter:
Labour Conditions and Discrimination in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), International Labour Office, Geneva, 1978
The Unemployment Crisis, CIIR, 1978
Foreign Companies and International Investment in Zimbabwe, CIIR, London 1980
Rhodesian Journal of Economics, 1970-76
A number of articles was published in the Rhodesian Journal of Economics, before, during and after time on its Editorial Board.
The political economy of the Republic Constitution of Rhodesia (RJE, 1970)
The assumed employment generating capacity of European immigration in Rhodesia, (RJE, 1970)
Economic development in Rhodesia: revision of a selected bibliography (RJE, 1971)
Problems of family planning amongst Africans in Rhodesia (1972)
The growth and economic impact of the public sector of Rhodesia (RJE, 1972)
Settler ideology and African underdevelopment in post-war Rhodesia (RJE, 1974)
African mine labourers and conditions of labour in the mining industry in Rhodesia, 1940–74, (RJE, 1975)
Structural trends affecting conditions of labour for African workers in Rhodesia (RJE, 1976)
International Journals, 1970-80
A number of articles was published in a range of foreign journals in Rhodesia, South Africa, Britain and America – as follows:
Further Considerations: Growth Estimates for the Rhodesian Economy (with P.S. Harris), South African Journal of Economics, 1970;
Economic and political aspects of the Rhodesian franchise – a research note, Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies, 11, 1973;
The economics of underdevelopment in Rhodesia: an essay on selected bibliography, Current Bibliography on African Affairs, 6, 1973;
Institutional wage-supply determinants of plantation labour in post-war Rhodesia, Rural Africana, 24, 1974;
On Labour Conditions, Rhodesian Journal of Medicine, 1974
Land inequality and income distribution in Rhodesia, African Studies Review, 18, 1975
African Workers and Union Formation in Rhodesia, South African Labour Bulletin (1975, vol 1, no 9).
Foreign African Labour Inflows to South Africa and 'unemployment' in Southern Africa, University of Natal, 1977
The South African Chamber of Mines: Policy and Strategy with reference to Foreign African Supply, University of Natal, 1977
Foreign Migrant Labour in Southern Africa: studies on accumulation in the labour reserves, demand determinants and supply relationships, International Labour Office, Geneve, 1977
International Labour Supply Trends and Economic Structure in Southern Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe, International Labour Office, 1978
Zimbabwe’s International Economic Position and Sanctions Removal, Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 1980
Economic Sanctions on South Africa: Past Evidence and Future Potential, Geneva, 1981
Policy Issues and Economic Sanctions on South Africa, Geneva, 1981
Zimbabwe, the ‘Inheritor State’
Rhodesia’s tenure in Zambesia’s history ended de facto in April 1980. The future was at stake, local and foreign investment the key to unlocking continued prosperity after a long civil war and mandatory economic sanctions.
Foreign Companies examined all investment dimensions - by historical origins, scale, investors, equity and finance, and diversity by branch of industry, corporate structure, ownership and control, impacts, and then unfolding future scenarios.
The book foretold the necessity for reform continuity in economic structure and needed investment for future prosperity, a stark warning, one then widely ignored by the architects of the ‘Inheritor State’ that created economic mayhem.
Grandfather’s Diary
The life and times, and pioneering story, of Francis Joseph Sheil O’ Clearly Clarke who arrived in Cape Town off a boat in 1895, met with Colonel Frank Rhodes, brother of Cecil Rhodes, took part in the Jameson Raid that year, later trekked in an ox-wagon from Johannesburg to Bulawayo in 1896, met President Paul Kruger on the journey, and in Rhodesia spent 33 years in Government service in multiple capacities.
The handwritten Diary was completed circa 1930, passed down through the family, and produced by the History Society of Zimbabwe in 2015, with substantial Notes added by Professor R.S. Roberts, the doyen of Zambesia’s historiography.
“I used to dream of Africa,
till at length this dream came true,
and I eventually found (myself)
in this delightful country – Rhodesia”.
Francis Joseph Sheil O’ Cleary Clarke
1870-1941