Research material on the 1958 elections in Southern Rhodesia

Research material on parliamentary elections in Southern Rhodesia, 1958.
Includes: manifestos and ephemera from the United Federal Party, the Rhodesia Party, the Confederate Party and the Dominion Party; constituency questionnaires; tables and graphs of results with explanatory notes; statistics for 1953 and 1958 elections; press cuttings; duplicated pamphlet produced by the Movement for Colonial Freedom, Handbook for Federal Politicians (Guide to electoral promises to Africans), August 1956.

MLO Faber, an influential development economist, had studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and undertaken his master’s in economics at the University of Michigan. Having worked as a claims adjuster in Japan and Korea before working as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, the Observer and the Economist (1954-60), he married Didon Howard in 1956. The couple moved to Northern Rhodesia that year. After a year as a development worker in Sicily (1961), Faber moved to the Caribbean to teach economics at the University of West Indies in Jamaica and returned to Northern Rhodesia in 1964. A lecturer in the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until declared a prohibited immigrant by the Federal government, he worked in Zambia (1964 - 67) as a senior economist and under-secretary in the ministry of finance as part of Kenneth Kaunda’s administration. In 1968 he was at Cambridge University working in the Department of Applied Economics and in 1969 he moved to the newly founded Overseas Development Group (ODG) at the University of East Anglia. He was to be Director of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s technical assistance group (1972-5 and 1978-82). He was appointed director of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University in 1982 and was later to become a board member of the Commonwealth Development Corporation and president of the UK chapter of the Society of International Development.

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MLO Faber, an influential development economist, had studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and undertaken his master’s in economics at the University of Michigan. Having worked as a claims adjuster in Japan and Korea before working as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, the Observer and the Economist (1954-60), he married Didon Howard in 1956. The couple moved to Northern Rhodesia that year. After a year as a development worker in Sicily (1961), Faber moved to the Caribbean to teach economics at the University of West Indies in Jamaica and returned to Northern Rhodesia in 1964. A lecturer in the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until declared a prohibited immigrant by the Federal government, he worked in Zambia (1964 - 67) as a senior economist and under-secretary in the ministry of finance as part of Kenneth Kaunda’s administration. In 1968 he was at Cambridge University working in the Department of Applied Economics and in 1969 he moved to the newly founded Overseas Development Group (ODG) at the University of East Anglia. He was to be Director of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s technical assistance group (1972-5 and 1978-82). He was appointed director of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University in 1982 and was later to become a board member of the Commonwealth Development Corporation and president of the UK chapter of the Society of International Development.

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