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Author: Blessing-Miles Tendi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1108472893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential biographical record of General Solomon Mujuru, one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics.
Author: Blessing-Miles Tendi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-03-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781108460729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrious African liberation fighter in the 1970s and, until his suspicious death in 2011, an important figure in Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU PF party in Zimbabwe, this first full-length biography of General Solomon Mujuru or Rex Nhongo throws much needed light onto the opaque elite politics of the 1970s liberation struggle, post-independence army and ZANU PF. Based on the unparalleled primary interviews with informants in the army, intelligence services, police and ZANU PF elites, Blessing-Miles Tendi examines Mujuru's moments of triumph and his shortcomings in equal measure. From his undistinguished youth and poor upbringing in colonial Rhodesia's Chikomba region, his rapid rise to power, and role as the first black commander of independent Zimbabwe's national army, this is an essential record of one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics.
Author: Tendai Chari
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-09-11
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 3031352297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores multiple challenges faced by democratization in Southern Africa. Applying a wider lens to the concept of political transition and employing a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, the contributions gathered here explore residual political cultural practices that hinder democratic consolidation in Southern Africa. Presenting various case studies, the book tackles themes such as the military-political nexus, leadership renewal, constitutionalism, electoral politics, election violence, marginalization of women, civil society and political transition, media framing and transitional justice. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective and drawing on empirical data from multiple sources, this edited volume challenges orthodox conceptualizations of political transition. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, African studies, and related fields, as well as policy-makers and professionals interested in the latest political developments in Southern Africa.
Author: Abiodun Alao
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 077354044X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow President Robert Mugabe manipulated Zimbabwe's security policy to exploit past problems for present gain.
Author: R. Mwanaka
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2015-04-03
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9956762601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZimbabwe: The Urgency of Now, is a follow-up creative non-fiction book to Zimbabwe: The Blame Game. It goes further than The Blame Game and focuses on Zimbabwe in the GNU entity, the 2013 elections, post elections and post GNU Zimbabwe, and Now. They are a myriad number of problems, issues, limitations that still unbundles Zimbabwes push towards multiparty democracy, social justice, economic sanity and growth, and The Urgency of Now focuses on the solutions to these. It also tackles the land reform in South Africa, how this could be its biggest problem going forward. It goes further and tackles the larger Africa problem toward democracy, growth, stability and unity, and why the progress towards the United States of Africa has been moribund.
Author: New Zimbabwe Liberation Force
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ngwabi Bhebe
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780852556092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese two companion volumes on Soldiers and Society give new perspectives on Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.
Author: Michael Bratton
Publisher:
Published: 2015-10-07
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781626373884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZimbabwe¿s July 2013 election brought the country¿s ¿inclusive¿ power-sharing interlude to an end and installed Mugabe and ZANU-PF for yet another¿its seventh¿term. Why? What explains the resilience of authoritarian rule in Zimbabwe? Tracing the country¿s elusive search for political stability across the decades, Michael Bratton offers a careful analysis of the failed power-sharing experiment, an account of its institutional origins, and an explanation of its demise. In the process, he explores key challenges of political transition: constitution making, elections, security-sector reform, and transitional justice.
Author: Ozan O. Varol
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 019062602X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Democratic Coup d'État advances a simple, yet controversial, argument: democracy sometimes comes through a military coup. Covering coups that toppled dictators and installed democratic rule in countries as diverse as Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, and Colombia, the book weaves a balanced narrative that challenges everything we knew about military coups.
Author: Godfrey Maringira
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-13
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781032241104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the barrack experiences of soldiers in post-independence Zimbabwe, examining the concept of military professionalism within a state in political crisis. Drawing upon interviews with former soldiers of the Zimbabwe National Army, Soldiers and the State in Zimbabwe casts a light on the oppression of soldiers by commanders who sought to repress and control the political thinking of their men. By contextualising the political, economic and material conditions in which Zimbabwean soldiers existed, Godfrey Maringira reveals the everyday victimisation and violence of the barracks. Exploring such events as the imposition of the Defence Act, the desertion of soldiers, and the 2017 military coup in Zimbabwe, the book presents and discusses the politicised nature of the military in post-independence Zimbabwe, and the political consequences of service in a state in deep political crisis. Soldiers and the State in Zimbabwe will be of interest to scholars and students of African Politics, military and security studies, and African studies.
