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Age of Agitation Series Debating Ideas Zimbabwe

By Duduzile Ndlovu

May 26, 2021

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Violence and Generational Trauma: Gukurahundi Memory Today

Age of Agitation Series: Gukurahundi Memory Today

President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa was Minister for State Security at the time of the Gukurahundi massacres. Credit: DIRCO News Service/ Jacoline Schoonees.

Gukurahundi: Can the man accused of opening the wounds heal them?

Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa has called for open debate on massacres in the 1980s that he allegedly masterminded. Many are unconvinced. This article was made possible by ...

Politics

By rethinkingzim

January 21, 2012

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Zimbabwe and the Politics of Impunity — by Alex Lichtenstein

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 ...

Politics

By rethinkingzim

August 30, 2011

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Two Deaths in Zimbabwe – by Timothy Scarnecchia

Two deaths in Zimbabwe’s political landscape happened a week apart in August. First came the tragic news of the murder of MDC-T politician Maxwell Ncube, whose ...