A thread on a series of articles by Tinashe Nyamunda @baba_nyenyedzi titled: Money and Economy in Zimbabwean history: A concise currency timeline. Definitely worth reading. Thank you Tinashe Nyamunda. @happ_zenge I first saw one of the articles on you TL thanks for sharing

Early State-making and the historical foundations of Zimbabwe’s colonial monetary system: 1890-1900
https://www.theanchor.co.zw/money-in-zimbabwean-history-a-concise-currency-timeline/

Speculators, Fiscal Foundations and Economic Reorganization, 1900-1910
https://www.theanchor.co.zw/money-in-zimbabwean-history-a-concise-currency-timeline-2/

War, Global Crisis and Colonial Consolidation, Currency Developments, 1910s -1920s.
https://www.theanchor.co.zw/money-and-economy-in-zimbabwean-history-a-concise-currency-timeline/

The end of Chartered Rule, entrenchment of white self-government and African economic disempowerment: Currencies, and the consolidation of Racialised Economic
Spaces, 1920-1930
https://www.theanchor.co.zw/money-and-economy-in-zimbabwean-history-a-concise-currency-timeline-2/

The imperial makings of a local/national currency in colonial Zimbabwe: Money as a product of imperial and colonial politics and law; 1930-1940
https://www.theanchor.co.zw/money-and-economy-in-zimbabwean-history-a-concise-currency-timeline-3/

The Second World War and its global monetary aftermath: The gradual shift from imperial – colonial links towards US-led liberalism, the 1940 – 1950
https://www.theanchor.co.zw/money-and-economy-in-zimbabwean-history-a-concise-currency-timeline-4/

The US-UN multilateralism and global monetary order: Implications for Southern Rhodesia’s monetary developments, 1950 – 1960
https://www.theanchor.co.zw/money-and-economy-in-zimbabwean-history-a-concise-currency-timeline-5/

Money and the winds of change in the 1960s. Federal collapse, the Rhodesian rebellion, sanctions UN sanctions and the turn towards a post-sterling currency.
https://www.theanchor.co.zw/money-and-economy-in-zimbabwean-history-a-concise-currency-timeline-6/

*Haven't located the 1970-1975 article yet. Will edit that in, if and when I do find it.

The struggle for which liberation? Money and the end of settler political rule in Rhodesia, 1975-1979
https://www.theanchor.co.zw/money-and-economy-in-zimbabwean-history-a-concise-currency-timeline-7/

Money is Politics: The Lancaster independence compromise and its implications for monetary and economic development, 1979-1980
https://www.theanchor.co.zw/money-and-economy-in-zimbabwean-history-a-concise-currency-timeline-8/

The Moniness (sic) of Money in Zimbabwe: Political but not economic independence 1980s-1990s
https://www.theanchor.co.zw/money-and-economy-in-zimbabwean-history-a-concise-currency-timeline-9/

Thats where the series is at present.
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