Brooks Marmon, former Mershon Center postdoctoral scholar currently at the University of Arkansas, edited a new book, Edson Sithole: Law, Liberation and the Cost of Dissent (Voices of Liberation), which was launched at a celebration in Zimbabwe on July 2, 2026.

Born in Southern Rhodesia, Edson Sithole (1935–1975?) was a lawyer, an anticolonial nationalist, and a trailblazing pan-Africanist with one of the strongest voices in Zimbabwe's liberation movement. A political prisoner for nearly half of his adult life, he vanished in 1975―presumably kidnapped and killed by the Rhodesian Special Branch, though that has never been proved.

Marmon traces Sithole's life, presents unabridged transcripts of both his writings and interviews with him, and discusses his legacy. His extensive archival research and interviews across three continents help bring to light the activist's disappearance and considerable contributions.

Occasionally a book is published that is a turning point in the historiography of the understanding of a nation. The selected writings of Edson Sithole by Brooks Marmon is such a book.
                                             Millius Palayiwa, Chair Britain Zimbabwe Society

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