The Rhodesian Study Circle is a philatelic website for the areas of Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, British Central Africa and Nyasaland, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Through the kind offices of Rob Burrett in Bulawayo, we are able to provide access to these Journals which of of great historical significance. The Jesuits, also known as the Society of Jesus, were one of the first missionary ventures into Central Africa.
A RPSL Publication
This publication is available to RSC members at a subsidised rate plus postage and packaging. Contact Colin Hoffman for details. A limited number of copies have already been shipped to Patrick Flanagan (South Africa), David Spivack (North America) and Sean Burke (Australia). Contact them should you wish to avail yourself of this opportunity.
Memoir 35 – The postal history of the American Board of Commissioners in Rhodesia 1893-1977
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Conversations with Swiss Missionaries in Barotseland 1940-1972 (with photographs and watercolours by Claire Bornand)
A new publication of the RSC by member Ian Menzies (who resides in Geneva and farms cattle in Zimbabwe). This is a much smaller publication than recent Memoirs; it is about a rather intimate encounter with one of those brave women who journeyed to Central Africa as missionaries in the middle of the 20th Century and is entitled: Conversations with Swiss Missionaries in Barotseland 1940-1972.
Conversations with Swiss missionaries’ is the story of a young nurse – Claire Bornand – from Geneva who sets out for Barotseland in 1940. She travels through Vichy France, through post Civil War Spain and eventually to her station on the Upper Zambezi. Many of her veteran colleagues are ill or exhausted and she soon finds herself taking responsibility for a clinic and treating thousands of patients. In her diary, she records Lozi customs, she photographs scenes on the Zambezi and botanical observations in her delightful series of watercolours. The 40 page book is based on interviews, documents bequeathed to the Geneva Ethnographic Museum and Paris DEFAP missionary archives.
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