Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, 2nd Edition
Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, 2nd Edition

Author: Roberta Wiener

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1467703605

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Robert Mugabe, one of the world’s most infamous dictators, rose to power in Rhodesia, the southern African region now known as independent Zimbabwe. As a leader in Rhodesia’s nationalist resistance movement of the 1970s, Mugabe mobilized his compatriots in their struggle for control of the white-ruled African nation, which had declared independence from Great Britain in 1965. The bloody civil war finally ended with Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980. As the president of the newly free nation, Mugabe was a beacon for black African self-rule, raising hopes on the continent and around the world. However, through a series of ill-conceived economic programs and a disastrously mismanaged land-redistribution scheme, Mugabe and his corrupt government brought ruin to his homeland. Creating a harsh climate of fear, brutality, and zero tolerance for opposition, Mugabe’s rule drained a once prosperous nation of its economic and human resources. In Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, learn more about the internal workings of one of the modern world’s most devastating dictatorships.

Dictionary of African Biography
Dictionary of African Biography

Author: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

Publisher:

Published: 2012-02-02

Total Pages: 3382

ISBN-13: 0195382072

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From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).

Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe
Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe

Author: Thomas Turino

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-06-20

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0226816966

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Hailed as a national hero and musical revolutionary, Thomas Mapfumo, along with other Zimbabwean artists, burst onto the music scene in the 1980s with a unique style that combined electric guitar with indigenous Shona music and instruments. The development of this music from its roots in the early Rhodesian era to the present and the ways this and other styles articulated with Zimbabwean nationalism is the focus of Thomas Turino's new study. Turino examines the emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle class and how this gave rise to a variety of urban-popular styles modeled on influences ranging from the Mills Brothers to Elvis. He also shows how cosmopolitanism gave rise to the nationalist movement itself, explaining the combination of "foreign" and indigenous elements that so often define nationalist art and cultural projects. The first book-length look at the role of music in African nationalism, Turino's work delves deeper than most books about popular music and challenges the reader to think about the lives and struggles of the people behind the surface appeal of world music.

Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures
Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures

Author: Melvin Ember

Publisher: Grolier, Incorporated

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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Presents articles on over 240 major cities around the world including demographic information, history, politics, public systems, culture, social life and future outlook.

Encyclopedia of African Airlines
Encyclopedia of African Airlines

Author: Ben R. Guttery

Publisher: Ben Guttery

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 9780786404957

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The rainy season, terrain, and financial hardships have made the construction of highways and railroads nearly impossible in many parts of Africa. This lack of modern infrastructure has been overcome in some part by the development of air transportation. Hundreds of carriers--both small and large, government owned and private--have connected all parts of the continent. Together, they have had a tremendous impact on the African economy and the people. Country-by-country, this comprehensive reference work provides brief histories of over 700 airlines in 54 African nations. Each entry has the years of operation of the carrier, along with information on its origin, growth, and route structure. Aircraft usage, including registration numbers and nicknames, is covered in many cases. Any crashes involving aircraft in the carrier's fleet are also noted. An appendix gives the location of all major African airports.

African American Music
African American Music

Author: Mellonee V. Burnim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1317934431

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American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.

Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe

Author: Deborah Helen Potts

Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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Leading from Behind
Leading from Behind

Author: Maia Chenaux-Repond

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2017-07-19

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1779223218

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Drawing on communications rescued from the shredders in the last days of Rhodesia, enlivened by photographs and memories both her own and those of her colleagues Maia Chenaux-Repond tells the story of her work as the Provincial Community Developpment Officer (Women) for Mashonaland and South in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the 1970s. There are no records whatsoever in the National Archives of Zimbabwe about the Community Development Section (Women), even though it was active in all the provinces. In the absence of other documentary sources, and all other provincial officers long having emigrated or died, this account of her work fills a significant gap in the pre-independence history of Zimbabwe. he crucial focus of the Womens Section on improving the lives and skills of women in the rural areas became progressively more difficult when the civil war intensified from the early 1970 as rural people and the development workers themselves were moved into Protected Villages, and as the Ministry became increasingly militarized.

Music, Performance and African Identities
Music, Performance and African Identities

Author: Toyin Falola

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1136830286

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Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa.