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Izitimela zakoBulawayo : railways and African women’s search for a better life in the ‘city of kings’, circa 1920-1950
Dissertation (MSocSci (History))--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/75469 Izitimela zakoBulawayo : railways and African women’s search for a better life in the ‘city of kings’, circa 1920-1950 Paleker, Gairoonisa nicolesithole56@gmail.com Sithole, Nicole History UCTD Dissertation (MSocSci (History))--University of Pretoria, 2019. The railway histories of colonial Zimbabwe are a fascinating area of research that has received relatively widespread scholarly attention. Studies of the connection between railway development and the African labour force have been engaged with quite substantially, however, there is a historiographical gap concerning African female experiences with railway infrastructure in the colonial setting. As such, this research challenges the androcentrism of the colonial archive of Zimbabwe by using Bulawayo, the city of kings, as a case study to probe into African female experiences with not only the train but the railway compounds, Rhodesia Railways and the British colonial government. African women made use of the train, as both dependent and independent migrants to enter into urban Bulawayo in search of a better life and once there, they constructed new and interesting identities of themselves. One way that this is evident is in their economic ventures within the compounds, both legal and illicit. Their presence in the railway compounds ultimately played a very significant role in African railwaymen choosing to go to strike in 1945. Yet, there has been an almost complete erasure of their stories from the colonial archive, suggesting that they were not important in the unravelling of their own histories. In light of this, this research reads against the grain of the colonial archive to tell some of the stories of these women who were in actuality, a force to be reckoned with. Andrew Mellon Foundation Historical and Heritage Studies MSocSci (History) Unrestricted 2020-07-28T09:16:11Z 2020-07-28T09:16:11Z 2020-09 2019-12 Dissertation Sithole, N 2019, Izitimela zakoBulawayo : railways and African women’s search for a better life in the ‘city of kings’, circa 1920-1950, MSocSci (History) Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75469> S2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75469 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | History UCTD Izitimela zakoBulawayo : railways and African women’s search for a better life in the ‘city of kings’, circa 1920-1950 |
| title | Izitimela zakoBulawayo : railways and African women’s search for a better life in the ‘city of kings’, circa 1920-1950 |
| title_full | Izitimela zakoBulawayo : railways and African women’s search for a better life in the ‘city of kings’, circa 1920-1950 |
| title_fullStr | Izitimela zakoBulawayo : railways and African women’s search for a better life in the ‘city of kings’, circa 1920-1950 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Izitimela zakoBulawayo : railways and African women’s search for a better life in the ‘city of kings’, circa 1920-1950 |
| title_short | Izitimela zakoBulawayo : railways and African women’s search for a better life in the ‘city of kings’, circa 1920-1950 |
| title_sort | izitimela zakobulawayo railways and african women s search for a better life in the city of kings circa 1920 1950 |
| topic | History UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75469 |