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Libraries in a Siege Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Geoffrey Dellar
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At home, I have not been allowed to forget my early response to the announcement of the unilateral declaration of independence in Rhodesia - it was rather similar to that of a former British Prime Minister, who had perhaps not been obliged to live quite so closely with the consequences as, until recently, I have.

“Weeks rather than months” was, if I recall correctly, his prognosis, and I have to confess that I too thought it would soon collapse in the face of world disapproval. Instead of which, I have lived through the thirteen years since in growing frustration, increasingly aware that the effort that librarians in Rhodesia had hoped to be able to put into the promotion and development of libraries in that country would be unlikely to bear fruit - largely through lack of that essential fertiliser, hard cash.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 20 , 1979 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © International African Institute 1975

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Footnotes

This article was originally delivered as a lecture to SCOLMA members at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies on 24 November 1978.

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