African Urban Experiences in Colonial Zimbabwe

"I thank Weaver Press for bringing this classic work to availability. Tsuneo Yoshikuni's meticulously researched, detailed book illuminates the contests between African workers and colonialism and the shaping of the urban landscape in early Harare as no other work has, or probably will again: it is required reading. Yoshikuni's untimely passing has robbed Japanese and southern African scholarship of a true champion of African social history." 

"Tsuneo Yoshikuni was a pioneer of Zimbabwean urban history. His work on early colonial Salisbury marked a new interest in this area that opened up the field to a series of further studies. Dr. Yoshikuni will long be remembered as the foremost Japanese-Africanist scholar on Zimbabwean history, as well as a close friend to Zimbabwean historians." 

"Let me express my delight that Tsuneo Yoshikuni's work is at last being published. His book will reveal a Zimbabwean urban social history which has hitherto been concealed and allow us to make some comparison with the published work on South African townships. Yoshikuni was one of the most industrious and modest of men and it is very good that his tragically early death has not deprived us of his master work." 

"Yoshikuni's study provides a highly nuanced history of the formative years of the city of Salisbury...it is a must for all those who seek to understand the forces that helped shape Zimbabwe's recent historical experience."