Drum Magazine social history photographs, East Africa edition 89

Joshua Nkomo: Why I Walked Out – Part of the crowd that walked 25 kilometres to hear Nkomo, and proved that Nkomo could still command fierce loyalty. Joshua Nkomo's critics, mainly wishful-thinking Europeans, say that his dramatic walk-out from the Southern Rhodesia constitutional conference this week was a piece of political juggling. They say he needed to make an extreme gesture to keep the extremists in the National Democratic Party.