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Texts written by some white Zimbabweans in the post-2000 dispensation are largely shaped by their authors' endeavor to contest the loss of lands they held prior to the onset of the Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP). Written as memoirs, these texts are bound by the tendency to fall back on colonial settler values, Rhodesian identities, and Hegelian supremacist ideas in their narration of aspects of a conflict in which tropes such as truth, justice, patriotism, and belonging were not only evoked but also reframed. This article explores manifestations of this tendency in Eric Harrison's Jambanja (2006) and Jim Barker's Paradise Plundered: The Story of a Zimbabwean Farm (2007). The discussion unfolds against the backdrop of the realization that much of the literary-critical scholarship on land reform in post-2000 Zimbabwe focuses on texts written by black Zimbabweans and does not attend to the panoply of ways in which some white-authored texts yearn for colonial structures of

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by a group of men whose desires to obtain a profit from their business venture were more paramount than any imperial designs attributed to the company. It posits that colonial administration and everything associated with it was frowned upon and seen as an albatross to their profit-making desires. The study, therefore, attempts to illuminate the BSAC's proprietors and financiers' profit-making aim and how their desire for such is revealed in the interfaces between the shareholders and the directors of the company. Through the interactions of shareholders, the Colonial Office and company directors, this article attempts to reveal and analyse the expressions of such desires. The paper seeks to do this by unpacking the conversations between shareholders and company directors and demonstrating how such interactions assist in revealing the operational parameters of the BSAC as a Chartered company.

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