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Author White, Luise

Title The assassination of Herbert Chitepo : texts and politics in Zimbabwe / Luise White
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Cape Town, South Africa : Double Storey Books, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 139 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments -- Characters in Order of Appearance -- A Note on Place Names -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary On 18 March 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe from white-ruled Rhodesia, was filled by a car bomb. Since then, there have been four confessions and at least as many accusations about who was responsible. In The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo, Luise White does not set out to resolve questions about who was accountable for this horrible murder. Instead, in a style that is as much murder mystery as it is history writing, she uncovers what is at stake in the various confessions and why Chitepo's assassin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-136) and index
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Subject Chitepo, H. W. -- Assassination
SUBJECT Chitepo, H. W. fast
Chitepo, Herbert W. swd
Subject HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY.
Assassination
Politics and government
Mord
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries - Africa.
SUBJECT Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149824
Subject Zimbabwe
Simbabwe
Simbabwe -- Partisanenkrieg.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002151586
ISBN 0253109833
9780253109835
1282072099
9781282072091