This recently released book examines the triumphs and tribulations of the Zimbabwean national project, providing a radical analysis of the fossilisation of Zimbabwean nationalism against the wider context of African nationalism in general.Published by Peter Lang
426 pp.
Africa in Development Vol. 3
Edited by Senghor Jeggan C.
ISBN 978-3-03911-941-7 pb.
The book departs radically from the common ‘praise-texts’ in seriously engaging with the darker aspects of nationalism, including its failure to create the nation-as-people, and to install democracy and a culture of human rights.
The author examines how the various people inhabiting the lands between the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers entered history and how violence became a central aspect of the national project of organising Zimbabweans into a collectivity in pursuit of a political end.
This book is an exciting theoretical-historiographical exploration of Zimbabwean history from the pre-colonial to the contemporary period, said Brian Raftopoulos, Director of Research and Advocacy, Solidarity Peace Trust.
The author, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, is currently Lecturer in African Studies at the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at the Open University in Milton Keynes. He was previously Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of International Studies at Monash University. He has published widely on Zimbabwean and South African history and politics with a specific focus on nationalism, identity, governance, state, nativism and conflict.
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