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Abstract
The name of Garfield Todd, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, became known outside the country in 1958 when his cabinet successfully rebelled against him. Inside the country, the wonder was that he became prime minister in the first place. Historians have concentrated on Garfield Todd's sudden emergence as an MP in 1946, and his meteoric rise and fall, rather than on his background as a missionary and teacher. If failure in the political arena was his destiny, then his legacy is massive success as a missionary and the shaper of the lives and careers of so many young men and women who went on to dominate the leadership of several aspects of African life after 1980. The authors believe that the tenth anniversary of Garfield's death in 2002 is a good time to consider the Dadaya years and their impact on the man, and this article makes that assessment.
Notes
1. The draft autobiography of Garfield Todd c.1974. Todd Papers Paul Collection (TPPC) in Edinburgh at present, but ultimately to be lodged in the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, Oxford.
2. Grace Todd to Mrs N, 24 February 1997, TPPC.
3. Aeneas Chigwdere speaking at Grace Todd's funeral at Dadaya Church, Zimbabwe, on 13 January 2002, TPPC.
4. Garfield Todd, draft autobiography.
5. Garfield Todd's report to New Zealand at the end of his first seven years at Dadaya, 1941, TPPC.
6. Garfield Todd speaking to the Britain–Zimbabwe Society, March 1987, TPPC.
7. Garfield Todd to Mrs Stella Salisbury, 27 October 1953, file MS.390/1/5, Todd Papers National Archives of Zimbabwe.
8. Public Orator at the University of Otago. Honorary degree ceremony for Garfield Todd, TPPC.
9. Garfield Todd to Susan Paul, interview for biography, 1995, in Bulawayo.
10. Garfield Todd to Susan Paul, 26 September 2001.