Memory Meanders: Place, Home and Commemoration in an Ex-Rhodesian Diaspora Community

Memory Meanders, Place, Home and Commemoration in an Ex-Rhodesian Diaspora Community is an ethnographic analysis of a postcolonial migrant community, white former Rhodesians, who have emigrated from Zimbabwe to South Africa after Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980. It explores the ways in which the colonial past is remembered and reworked, and how “Rhodesia” becomes meaningful and is held alive in the everyday lives and social memory practices of former colonials. Since there has been little ethnographic analysis of former members of “settler communities,” this book makes an original contribution to the study of colonialism and postcolonialism in Southern Africa.