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A History of Zimbabwe

Author : Alois S. Mlambo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867520
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book A History of Zimbabwe written by Alois S. Mlambo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first single-volume history of Zimbabwe with detailed coverage from pre-colonial times to the present, this book examines Zimbabwe's pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial social, economic and political history and relates historical factors and trends to recent developments in the country. Zimbabwe is a country with a rich history, dating from the early San hunter-gatherer societies. The arrival of British imperial rule in 1890 impacted the country tremendously, as the European rulers exploited Zimbabwe's resources, giving rise to a movement of African nationalism and demands for independence. This culminated in the armed conflict of the 1960s and 1970s and independence in 1980. The 1990s were marked by economic decline and the rise of opposition politics. In 1999, Mugabe embarked on a violent land reform program that plunged the nation's economy into a downward spiral, with political violence and human rights violations making Zimbabwe an international pariah state. This book will be useful to those studying Zimbabwean history and those unfamiliar with the country's past.

The History and Political Transition of Zimbabwe

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030477339
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The History and Political Transition of Zimbabwe written by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis. Its focus is on a very problematic political culture that is proving very hard to transcend. At the center of this culture is an unstable but resilient ‘nationalist-military’ alliance crafted during the anti-colonial liberation struggle in the 1970s. Inevitably, violence, misogyny and masculinity are constitutive of the political culture. Economically speaking, the culture is that of a bureaucratic, parasitic, primitive accumulation and corruption, which include invasion and emptying of state coffers by a self-styled ‘Chimurenga aristocracy.’ However, this Chimurenga aristocracy is not cohesive, as the politics that led to Robert Mugabe’s ousting from power was preceded by dirty and protracted internal factionalism. At the center of the factional politics was the ‘first family’:Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace Mugabe. This book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the complex contemporary politics in Zimbabwe, taking seriously such issues as gender, misogyny, militarism, violence, media, identity, modes of accumulation, the ethnicization of politics, attempts to open lines of credit and FDI, national healing, and the national question as key variables not only of a complete political culture but also of difficult transitional politics.

The Zimbabwe African People's Union, 1961-87

Author : Eliakim M. Sibanda
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592212767
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book The Zimbabwe African People's Union, 1961-87 written by Eliakim M. Sibanda and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of the political history of insurgency in SOuthern Rhodesia. During the early years of its struggle, ZAPU employed non-violent means to try and achieve its goal for majority rule and a non-racial society. Because of the belligerancy of the White settler regime, ZAPU added the armed resistance to its strategy and went on to build a formidable army. Problems escalated and alliances were built and dissolved until, tired of being hunted down and butchered, the ZAPU leadership decided to merge its party with the ruling party in December 1987.

Becoming Zimbabwe. A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008

Author : Brian Raftopoulos
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9988647417
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Zimbabwe. A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008 written by Brian Raftopoulos and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history of a nation-in-the-making should not be reduced to a selective heroic tradition, but should be a tolerant and continuing process of questioning and re-examination.' Becoming Zimbabwe tracks the idea of national belonging and citizenship and explores the nature of state rule, the changing contours of the political economy, and the regional and international dimensions of the country's history. In their Introduction, Brian Raftopoulos and Alois Mlambo enlarge on these themes, and Gerald Mazarire's opening chapter sets the pre-colonial background. Sabelo Ndlovu tracks the history up to WW11, and Alois Mlambo reviews developments in the settler economy and the emergence of nationalism leading to UDI in 1965. The politics and economics of the UDI period, and the subsequent war of liberation, are covered by Joesph Mtisi, Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Teresa Barnes. After independence in 1980, Zimbabwe enjoyed a period of buoyancy and hope. James Muzondidya's chapter details the transition 'from buoyancy to crisis', and Brian Raftopoulos concludes the book with an analysis of the decade-long crisis and the global political agreement which followed.

Walking a Tightrope

Author : James Muzondidya
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592212460
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Walking a Tightrope written by James Muzondidya and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing mainly on the process of identity formation among members of Zimbabwe's coloured community, this book challenges conventional wisdom on race and ethnic identities. When viewed in the broad perspective of studies which focus on identities in general, this work is one of the few that clearly tries to demonstrate how social identities are produced and reproduced in the dialect of internal and external definition while paying adequate attention to the role played by the people themselves.

Against the Odds

Author : Mary Ndlovu
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779221681
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Against the Odds written by Mary Ndlovu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1978: In Rhodesia, the Internal Settlement led to the creation of a coalition government. Smith had, however, neither capitulated nor abandoned his belief in white superiority, and thousands of people fled across the country's borders. In England, a group of missionaries, supported by the Catholic Institute for International Relations, formed a steering group that was to become the Zimbabwe Project. Originally an educational fund to support exiled young Zimbabweans, it shifted focus toward humanitarian assistance to refugees in the region. 1981: The Zimbabwe Project Trust, a child of the war, came home, and its director, Judith Todd, started mapping the route that it would follow for the next thirty years. ZimPro - as it came to be known - began its work with ex-combatants, assisting with their education, skills training and co-operative development, and producing a news bulletin. In terms of funding, courage, and creative programming, it became a giant in the country's development landscape, but it has had to negotiate many political, financial and philosophical minefields on the way. Against The Odds offers a rare insight into workings of an NGO on the frontline. With a cast of larger-than-life characters, it also offers a drama of Zimbabwe's first thirty years and provides insights and lessons which will benefit everyone concerned with development, and provide historians with another important lens through which to view the past.

Zimbabwean History

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zimbabwean History written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mugabeism?

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137543469
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Mugabeism? by : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Download or read book Mugabeism? written by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe making it possible to evaluate Mugabe from a historical, political, philosophical, gender, literal and decolonial perspectives. It is concerned with capturing various meanings of Mugabeism.

African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80

Author : Timothy Joseph Stapleton
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580463800
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80 by : Timothy Joseph Stapleton

Download or read book African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80 written by Timothy Joseph Stapleton and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recruiting and motivations for enlistment -- Perceptions of African security force members -- Education and upward mobility -- Camp life -- African women and the security forces -- Objections and reforms -- Travel and danger -- Demobilization and veterans.

African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe

Author : Mhoze Chikowero
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253018099
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe by : Mhoze Chikowero

Download or read book African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe written by Mhoze Chikowero and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.

Imagining a Nation

Author : Ruramisai Charumbira
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813938236
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Imagining a Nation written by Ruramisai Charumbira and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imagining a Nation, Ruramisai Charumbira analyzes competing narratives of the founding of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe constructed by political and cultural nationalists both black and white since occupation in 1890. The book uses a wide array of sources—including archives, oral histories, and a national monument—to explore the birth of the racialized national memories and parallel identities that were in vigorous contention as memory sought to present itself as history. In contrast with current global politics plagued by divisions of outsider and insider, patriot and traitor, Charumbira invites the reader into the liminal spaces of the region’s history and questions the centrality of the nation-state in understanding African or postcolonial history today. Using an interdisciplinary methodology, Charumbira offers a series of case studies, bringing in characters from far-flung places to show that history and memory in and of one small place can have a far-reaching impact in the wider world. The questions raised by these stories go beyond the history of colonized or colonizer in one former colony to illuminate contemporary vexations about what it means to be a citizen, patriot, or member of a nation in an ever-globalizing world. Rather than a history of how the rulers of Rhodesia or Zimbabwe marshaled state power to force citizens to accept a single definition of national memory and identity, Imagining a Nation shows how ordinary people invested in the soft power of individual, social, and collective memories to create and perpetuate exclusionary national myths. Reconsiderations in Southern African History

Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage

Author : Pathisa Nyathi
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 0797428976
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage written by Pathisa Nyathi and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2005 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards in 2006 for Non-fiction: Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a collection of pieces of the culture of the Ndebele, Shona, Tonga, Kalanga, Nambiya, Xhosa and Venda. The book gives the reader an insight into the world view of different peoples, through descriptions of their history and life events such as pregnancy, marriage and death. "...the most enduring book ever on Zimbabwean history. This book will help people change their attitude towards each other in Zimbabwe." - Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards citation

Becoming Zimbabwe. A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008

Author : Brian Raftopoulos
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779221215
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (792 download)

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Peasants, Traders, and Wives

Author : Elizabeth Schmidt
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780435080662
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Peasants, Traders, and Wives written by Elizabeth Schmidt and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Schmidt argues that women were central to the formation of African peasantries in Rhodesia. Yet women's status declined over the course of the colonial period. As political mechanisms threatened the survival of peasant households, women's labor was intensified in the last ditch attempt to stave off the need for male labor migration.

The Battle for Zimbabwe

Author : Geoff Hill
Publisher : Struik Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781868726523
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Battle for Zimbabwe written by Geoff Hill and published by Struik Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe??'s ruling party is currently experiencing its most intense economic and political challenge in its 20-year history. This book, written in an easy-to-read journalistic style, charts these troubled times.

Great Zimbabwe

Author : Joseph O. Vogel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135506736
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Great Zimbabwe written by Joseph O. Vogel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. This research guide was written as a comprehensive, though by no means exhaustive, survey of the literature pertinent to studying the indigenous complex societies of south central Africa. Although the paramount focus of the compilation was the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe, the author has drawn from a broad geographical area and a wider period of time than that usually associated with Zimbabwean culture in order to demonstrate the cultural background for the growth of monumental trading towns in south central Africa.

Making History in Mugabe's Zimbabwe

Author : Blessing-Miles Tendi
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039119899
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Making History in Mugabe's Zimbabwe written by Blessing-Miles Tendi and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crisis that has engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000 is not simply a struggle against dictatorship. It is also a struggle over ideas and deep-seated historical issues, still unresolved from the independence process, that both Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF regime and Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC are vying first to define and then to address. This book traces the role of politicians and public intellectuals in media, civil society and the academy in producing and disseminating a politically usable historical narrative concerning ideas about patriotism, race, land, human rights and sovereignty. It raises pressing questions about the role of contemporary African intellectuals in the making of democratic societies. In so doing the book adds a new and rich dimension to the study of African politics, which is often diluted by the neglect of ideas.