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Title: | War Propaganda during the Second World War in Northern Rhodesia |
Author: | Smyth, Rosaleen |
Year: | 1984 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 83 |
Issue: | 332 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 345-358 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | propaganda World War II History and Exploration colonialism |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/722352 |
Abstract: | Most Africans in Northern Rhodesia experienced the Second World War vicariously through war news and propaganda. The present article explores the impact this second-hand experience of the war had on the colony. Relatively speaking, the war produced something of an information explosion in Northern Rhodesia. The war news and propaganda to which the African population was suddenly exposed hastened the emergence of an African political voice; the need to mobilise public opinion in support of the war effort led the Northern Rhodesian government to pay more attention to African public opinion than it had done before the war; indirectly the war stimulated some educated Africans to use the press, government as well as commercial, in order to engage in political dialogue with the administration and with white settler politicians. Notes. |