ROLIN'S RHODESIA BY HENRI ROLIN, SILVER SERIES

"ROLIN'S RHODESIA" BY HENRI ROLIN, SILVER SERIES VOLUME TWENTY-ONE. HARDCOVER, FULLY INTACT DUST JACKET, INSCRIPTION FROM PREVIOUS OWNER, 304 PAGES, IN GOOD CONDITION.

Rolin was most interested in the phenomenon of colonisation through the agency of a commercial organisation. He defines the areas of responsibility of the Imperial government, the Chartered Company and the settlers. The study is presented in three parts: the political and legal organisation; native policy; and legislation relating mainly to the whites, in particular the laws governing land ownership and mining rights. In dealing with Africans, he confesses to being a theorising humanitarian, and sees the country as comprising a white aristocracy ruling a black proletariat. He admires the Rhodesian judicial system, sees both good and bad in the administration, wrestles with the vexed question of land ownership, and reviews the labour situation as it affects mining and farming. Rolin's deep knowledge of the philosophy and nature of law, which he relates to the framework of society as a whole, and his lucid exposition, make the work intellectually satisfying to the scholar and of compelling interest to the general reader. Rolin identified problems which even now bedevil reconciliation between the races but he observed sufficient promise in the spirit of Rhodesia's laws and government to encourage the conviction that with magnanimity and a total commitment, by both black and white, to work selflessly for the national good, Rhodesia will yet achieve the greatness it deserves.