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Rethinking Zimbabwe
January 21, 2012
Posted by rethinkingzim
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
Read the rest of Zimbabwe and the Politics of Impunity — by Alex Lichtenstein »
January 15, 2012
Posted by rethinkingzim
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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December 12, 2011
Posted by rethinkingzim
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
Read the rest of Zimbabwe: 2011 in political retrospect — by Takura Zhangazha »
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December 3, 2011
Posted by rethinkingzim
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
November 2, 2011
Posted by rethinkingzim
Solidarity Peace Trust issued the following press release concerning their latest indepth Report on the situation in rural Matabeleland and Bulawayo. The full report is available to download at the link below: “Nationally, Zimbabwe is more food secure at the
September 28, 2011
Posted by rethinkingzim
Zimbabwe’s political crisis continues with political parties’ internal divides exposed by Wikileaks revelations, the coalition government at loggerheads on fundamental issues and the prospect of a violent election period in the coming year. Yet with the stabilisation of the currency
Read the rest of Land in Zimbabwe: Voices from the Field– Ian Scoones »
September 26, 2011
Posted by rethinkingzim
In traveling across the greater parts of Zimbabwe, one is struck by the ‘life goes on’ way of existence of many of the country’s citizens. From the small rural shopping center (Birchenough Bridge), to the still sleepy iron ore mining
September 20, 2011
Posted by rethinkingzim
In early August, Robert Mugabe hosted one of his more bizarre state functions when he bequeathed $50,000 USD to a white Zimbabwean whose nationality and character had been questioned by the state press only months earlier. Wendall Parson, a
Read the rest of Reality TV, Race, and Reunification in Zimbabwe — by Brooks Marmon »
September 8, 2011
Posted by rethinkingzim
The U.S. version of We Are All Zimbabweans Now, published by Ohio University Press, will be released in September, 2011. In early 2003 I sat in a California prison cell reading various bits and pieces of news about Zimbabwe. With
September 5, 2011
Posted by rethinkingzim
“Inamori Ethics Prize Ceremony and Recipient Lecture” Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday September 7, 2011, 5:30pm – 6:30pm Free and Open to the Public Severance Box Office Tickets: 216-231-1111; or Reserve & Self-Print Tickets Online: Severance Online Kiosk More information:
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