Rethinking Zimbabwe

The following is an excerpt from the Introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies on Zimbabwe edited by David Moore. The complete version of Moore’s introduction is available for free download at Taylor & Francis

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This piece first appeared at Solidarity Peace Trust‘s Zimbabwe Update No. 4, 9 March 2012. A great tragedy of the Mugabe regime has been the deconstruction of national institutions, which some analysts have mistaken for a ‘radicalised state.’ In effect

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[Note: The following first appeared on the Zimbabwe Independent Thursday, 16 February 2012] THERE are at least three myths that are increasingly pervading the political discourse in Zimbabwe. They reflect the anxiety around the current transition in which neither Zanu

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The editorial team of Critical African Studies is delighted to announce the publication of its 6th issue. It contains a critical debate engaging with a recent, much celebrated, single-volume history of Zimbabwe, entitled Becoming Zimbabwe, authored and edited by some

Read the rest of Debating ‘Becoming Zimbabwe: A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008′ — by Joost Fontein »

On the occasion of  his eighty-eighth birthday, President Mugabe gave what appears to be two separate interviews where he talked on matters to do with his political and personal reflections. The first interview which appeared in the Sunday Mail seemed

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[Editor's Note: This paper, by Busani Mpofu, a post-doctoral student at the University of Pretoria, originally appeared on the Solidarity Peace Trust's Zimbabwe Review on 16 September 2011. There have been a growing number of important pieces on poverty in

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This review first appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books on November 23, 2011 .  Peter Godwin The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe Little, Brown and Co., March 2011. 384 pp. Catholic Commission for Justice and

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The recent ascension of Guy Scott to the vice-presidency of Zambia has been viewed with great interest by the country’s neighbors as well as Western media.  Dr. Scott was born in what was then the British colony of Northern Rhodesia

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The passage of time is a rarely considered element in our national political discourse. A year begins and a year ends and we are all afflicted by short memories. Momentous political events are not easily remembered even in the wake

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The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini, Little Brown and Company, New York, 2009, 403pp. The Trial of Robert Mugabe by Chielo Zona Eze, Okri Books, Chicago, 2009, 158pp. Reviewed by James Kilgore The arrival of these two new voices

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