Rhodesian policy creating mass African landlessness fueled nationalist mobilization around land redistribution.

Evidence

Thus, by the late 1940s, “Southern Rhodesia had 71, 182 potentially homeless families who required 7, 118, 200 acres of land on the basis of 100 acres per family” (Bhebe, 1989, p. 22). This prompted Rhodesian authorities “to do away with many Purchase Areas which provided the only limited opportunity for Africans to hold land on an individual basis” (Bhebe, 1989, p. 23). In the interim, many families were settled in dry and tsetse fly–infested regions of the country. These developments provided a pedestal for the further development of African nationalist indignation toward colonialism, and African nationalist parties would mobilize mass support by foregrounding land redistribution in their propaganda. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 26

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Imperialist expansion itself generated the coherence and dynamics of African resistance — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 827; Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements; Exploitative colonial systems routinely produce nationalist independence movements — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2198 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Exploitative colonial systems routinely produce nationalist independence movements #expands (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2198
• Imperialist expansion itself generated the coherence and dynamics of African resistance #expands (0.78) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 827
• Colonial origin theories were used to deny Africans land rights #expands (0.75) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 329
• Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements #corroborates (0.72)
• Irish land dispossession paralleled African colonial land theft in scale #exemplifies (0.72) — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 128