Requiem for Rhodesia

by Carlos Whitlock Porter

In re-reading this brilliant essay one should be reminded that the author was only 26 years old at the time and had not been brought up in Africa. Considering that, it is truly remarkable that he could have been so unfashionably 'illiberal' and so insightful into the African psyche.Carlos Whitlock Porter was born in 1947 in California in a family of Navy officers and lawyers. C.W. Porter studied in Europe, and is a professional translator and member...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164858666X
• ISBN13: 9781648586668
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Vettaz Edition Limited
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Incredibly Racist and Xenophobic take on the History of Rhodesia.

Porter provides interesting imagery of the unique situation of Rhodesia after its UDI in 1964. Porter then goes on a lengthy tirade about how Africans are antiquated and that the white Rhodesians are undermined in there society. What could have been a time capsule from a post-colonial state and the Cold War, instead became just a paperback on race-baiting and xenophobia. Porter begins his essay with Shakespeare quotes, and ends it by decrying the Jews and quoting Hitler.