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Zimbabwe : years of hope and despair / Philip Barclay.
LIBRA DT2996 .B37 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barclay, Philip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barclay, Philip.
- Political corruption--Zimbabwe.
- Political corruption.
- Political violence--Zimbabwe.
- Political violence.
- Diplomats.
- Zimbabwe.
- Diplomats--Zimbabwe.
- Zimbabwe--History--1980-.
- History.
- Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1980-.
- Politics and government.
- Zimbabwe--Social conditions--1980-.
- Social conditions.
- Zimbabwe--Economic conditions--1980-.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 238 pages : map ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, Great Britain ; New York [N.Y.] : Bloomsbury, 2011.
- Summary:
- Zimbabwe is a country both blessed and cursed. Arriving to work at the British Embassy in Zimbabwe, Philip Barclay found a temperate paradise and a sophisticated and charming population. But during a three-year stay in what used to be Africa's finest country, he saw it ruined by violence and grotesque economic mismanagement.
- Contents:
- The battleground
- Posturing and positioning
- March 2008 : the defeat of Robert Mugabe
- Waiting for Gono
- The unconquerable will
- Red soil
- Crocodile tears
- Shaking hands and touching elbows
- Faint hope
- Moving on
- Postscript to the 2011 edition.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2010.
- "With a new postscript"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781408809785
- 1408809788
- OCLC:
- 720548541
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