The Rhetoric of Sir Garfield Todd: Christian Imagination and the Dream of an African Democracy

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments Many people made this book possible. First I would like to thank the late Sir Garfield Todd for answering innumerable questions about his life, career, and his speaking. Sir Garfield also supplied many of the speech texts used in the book. Judith Todd’s support has been indisp m pensable, especially her willingness to convey messages to her parents via e-mail. Allan Todd, Garfield’s nephew and his wife Majorie Todd, were gracious hosts while I visited Wellington, New Zealand, and Allan supplied indispensable information and background materials on Garfield and Grace. Susan Paul, who is writing Sir Garfield’s offic m cial biography, also supplied copies of several important speech texts. I owe a special thanks to Pepperdine’s Seaver Research Council and to Lee Kats, Associate Provost of Research, for granting me release time, which helped me find the time to complete the book and for granting me the Manchester-Harris College, Oxford University Fell m lowship, which enabled me to research at the Rhodes House Library, a part of Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Lucy McCann, the archivist at Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House was extremely helpful in locating relevant materials on Todd. Sue Killorian, librarian at Harris-Manchester College, Oxford Univ m versity, was gracious in helping me plan my research at Oxford and at the British Library. I also owe a special thanks to Terrance Ranger for giving me permission to use his papers located at Rhodes House and telling me about the Roy Welensky papers, which are indispensa m able to anyone researching topics on Colonial Rhodesia. Janet Horncy and the librarians at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, were helpful beyond what any researcher would expect. Clinton Holloway and Lynn Morgan found relevant sources, speech texts, and photog m graphs at the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, Nashville, Tenness m see. Also Don Haymes, theological librarian at Christian Theological Casey.Rhetoric.indd 11 1/9/07 11:10:48 AM Seminary alerted me to some key sources. Melinda Raine, librarian at Pepperdine University, and Laurie Kram, librarian at UCLA, located transcripts of Todd’s UN speeches. Melissa Nichols helped innumera m able times with my many interlibrary loan requests. Travis Wesley, a reference specialist at the Library of Congress, helped me locate copi m ies of the African Daily News and other Zimbabwean newspapers held there. The staff at the British Library also helped me locate copies of Zimbabwean newspapers held at the Colindale facility. John and Susan Sweetman, Ron O’Grady and Roger Russ helped in finding resources in Auckland. The Institute for Faith and Learning at Baylor University provided a fellowship that enabled me to complete a large portion of the manuscript. I also would like to thank the undergradua m ate Crane Scholars at Baylor University for their reactions to earlier versions of the introduction. I also presented some of the ideas in the book at Lipscomb University through the school’s Center for Intern m national Peace and Justice. I would like to thank Don Cole, Richard Goode, and Craig Bledsoe for that opportunity. In addition, I pres m sented an early version of some of the ideas at the Christianity and Human Rights: The Fourth Annual Lilly Fellows Program National Research Conference, in Birmingham, Alabama, November 13, 2004. I owe a special debt of thanks to my former student Nicola Kaiwai and her parents Helen and Peter Kaiwai for being gracious hosts during my stay in Wellington. Finally I also owe a special debt to Marty Medh m hurst, the editor of the Rhetoric and Religion series, and Carey Newm m man, the editor of Baylor University Press, who helped bring the book to fruition as I faced some difficult health problems near the complet m tion of the book. The book would not have appeared except for their essential help and belief in the project. Conference Sermon. Reprinted with the permission of the New Zealand Christian. Our Timeless Missionary Mandate. Used by permission of the Disc m ciples of Christ Historical Society. After Independence, What? Political Imperatives. Used by permission of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society. Speech at the International Center of Indianapolis Luncheon on Basic Issues. Used by permission of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society. xii acknowledgments Casey.Rhetoric.indd 12 1/9/07 11:10:49 AM The Church Knows No Boundaries. Copyright Christian Standard...