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1 online resource |
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African histories and modernities |
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African histories and modernities.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Mugabeism and entanglements of history, politics and power in the making of Zimbabwe / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. -- Part 1: Mugabeism, economic nationalism and pan-Africanism. Robert Mugabe: an intellectual manqué and his moments of meaning / David B. Moore -- Mugabe on land, indigenization and development / Alois S. Mlambo -- Mugabe's neo-sultanist rule: beyond the veil of pan-Africanism / Gorden Moyo. -- Part 2: Diplomacy, solidarity and power. Intransigent diplomat: Robert Mugabe and his western diplomacy / Timothy Scarnecchia -- Sheriff in the club of dictators?: Robert Mugabe's role in the politics of Southern Africa / Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Joseph Jakarasi -- In the footsteps of Robert Gabriel Mugabe: Namibian solidarity with Mugabe's populism: (bogus) anti-imperialism in practice / Henning Melber -- Robert Mugabe: the will to power and crisis of the paradigm of war / Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. -- Part 3: Masculinity, gender and corruption. Mugabe the man-nation: two views of culture and history in the construction of Zimbabwe / Robert Muponde -- Grappling with Mugabe's masculinist politics in Zimbabwe: a gender perspective / Rudo B. Gaidzanwa -- Corruption and the comrades: Mugabe and the 'fight' against corruption in Zimbabwe / Wesley Mwatwara and Joseph Mujere. -- Part 4: Global coloniality, racism and militarism. Mugabe's land reform and the provocation of global white anti-black racism / Kenneth Tafira -- A Fanonian reading of Robert Gabriel Mugabe as colonial subject / Tendayi Sithole -- African leadership in the age of Euro-North American-centric modernity: a decolonial critique of Robert Mugabe / Morgan Ndlovu -- Mugabe and the military alliance: Zimbabwe's prospects of democratic transition / Kudzai Matereke and Niveen el Moghazy |
| Summary |
President Robert Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe is an enigmatic figure who has been in power for over three decades. He is a difficult subject to understand because his political life has attracted both admirers and critics. This book is the first of its kind to try and make sense of the meaning of Mugabe from an interdisciplinary vantage point. It poses the difficult question of what Mugabeism means. What emerges is Mugabe as colonial, nationalist, and postcolonial subject manifesting complex ambivalences, ambiguities, and contradictions. Mugabe is at once a liberator, Machiavellian dictator, champion of socio-economic justice, patriarch, pan-Africanist, anti-democrat, and an anti-imperialist revolutionary. He is at once a progenitor and undertaker of Zimbabwe. He is at once popular and unpopular. It is these meanings of Mugabe that are explored in this book |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924-2019
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| SUBJECT |
Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924-2019 fast |
| Subject |
Political leadership -- Zimbabwe
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African history.
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History.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa.
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Political leadership
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Politics and government
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Zimbabwe -- History -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149816
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Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149824
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Zimbabwe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., editor, writer of introduction, author
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| ISBN |
9781137543462 |
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1137543469 |
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1349567132 |
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9781349567133 |
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9781137543448 |
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1137543442 |
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9781137543455 |
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1137543450 |
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