literature

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

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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 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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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

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