Word: eddison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several days later, the spokesman--named Eddison-talked about this work for the cause of African blacks against the white supremacist government in Rhodesia. From the deskchair in the study of his Cambridge apartment, he discussed the past in an almost-tired voice. In 1960, at the age of 24, he had helped found the National Democratic Party, then the most widespread effort to organize the African population against the ruling white minority. "We were a lawful party," he says, "but we operated on all levels, with a program for overthrowing the regime. We had an underground wing to carry...
...regime outlawed the party, arresting and deporting its leaders. When the nationalist forces set up a new party, the Zimbawbe African People's Union, Eddison represented them before the United Nations. On his return in 1963 to Zimbawbe, the African name for Rhodesia, he was immediately arrested and sent to a concentration camp in the countryside where he remained until...
While still in prison, Eddison received a law degree through correspondence with the University of London. Upon his release in 1971 and after extended pleas to the government, he became one of seven black Rhodesian lawyers in a profession numbering...
After months of this treatment, Eddison fled the country and eventually made his way to the United States. He is now working on his dissertation at Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy...
...Eddison has vivid memories of the struggle of the Rhodesian guerrilla forces. They fought their first battle with the regime in 1966, and in the next three years there was widespread fighting across northern Rhodesia. After a several-year lag in the fighting, the liberation troops resumed the offensive, directing their efforts primarily against white farmers and forcing many of them to abandon their farms and move to the cities...