The Rise of an African Middle Class
Subtitle: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780253340856
Subjects: Political History; Urban Sociology; Sociology; History: World; General; 20th century; African history: from c 1900 -; Colonization & independence; Multicultural studies; Social classes; Africa - General; History & Theory - General; Sociology - Urban; 1890-1965; Colonial influence; History; Middle class; Politics and government; Zimbabwe
First sentence: IN 1915, a high police official in Bulawayo, responding to repeated entreaties by various African organizations, appealed to the top colonial administrator to establish a housing scheme "for the more respectable class of natives who form part of the labour supply of the town, and who shun the location [or African ghetto] as a dwelling place for their wives and families."