This article focuses on a single episode of racial interaction in 1931 in order to highlight competing notions of honor and respectability in a shared colonial society. This story elucidates how Africans and whites unraveled and rebuilt ?racial etiquette?, the tacit code that guided individual encounters between blacks and whites and that were so vital to the expre...

Sometime in the mid-1970s Jasper Savanhu (1917-1984), a former MP and parliamentary secretary in the Central Africa Federation government (1953-1963), sketched out a 'prospectus' for his memoirs. Savanhu had been living in political obscurity since the end of Federation, but he was inspired by an interview conducted in 1973 to write his memoirs. He wanted to emphas...