Sibanengi Ncube

“Smoke and At Least Die Happy”: Media Framing of the Smoking-Cancer Conundrum in Southern Rhodesia, 1950s–1960s

In this article, I examine how newspapers in Southern Rhodesia framed the then emerging scientific consensus in the 1950s and 1960s, linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer. Drawing on archival press materials, I analyze how media narratives interacted with the British colony’s...

Commodities, States, Land, and Environments in Southern African History

This introduction to the mini-special issue on commodities, states, land, and environments in southern African history frames commodities as a critical lens for reinterpreting the political, social, and environmental histories of southern Africa from the colonial period to the pr...