Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe

Ranger continually illuminates Rhodesia's tortuous passage to majority rule by comparison with two contrasting models of decolonisation: Kenya (conservative) and Mozambique (la luta continua). - David Caute in * THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS *
... Ranger's present book has all the many-sidedness of a 25-year historiographical and political engagement... Oral historians are at home when listening to a voice directly or indirectly from the 1890s or 1940s. They are less used to treating as already historical a voice from the 1970s. But Ranger's book should be seen as a major event in contemporary oral history, i.e. of experiences which, while chronologically still in limbo between (for present-day Westerner) media-drenched present and a literarily-disciplined past, lie already on the far side of an allegedly or actually profound change... The oral-historical part of Ranger's bibliography is also a model. - Logie Barrow, Professor of History, Hamburg in * ORAL HISTORY *
... is undoubtedly much the most important book to be written on Zimbabwe for many years and it transforms our understanding of the whole colonial experience. - Richard Brown, University of Sussex, in * BRITISH BOOK NEWS *