Catastrophe : what went wrong in Zimbabwe? / Richard Bourne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bourne, Richard, 1940- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924-2019.

Mugabe, Robert Gabriel.

ZANU-PF (Organization : Zimbabwe).

Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1980-.

Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe--Politics and government--20th century.

Zimbabwe--Economic policy.

Zimbabwe--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, ©2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country that had every prospect of success when it achieved independence became a brutal police state less than thirty years later, plagued by hyperinflation and collapsing life expectancy and abandoned by a third of its citizens. Beginning with the British conquest and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, Catastrophe is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and readable account of the ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe. Bourne shows that Zimbabwe's tragedy is not just about Mugabe's 'evil' but about history, Africa today and the world's attitudes towards it."--Page [4] of book cover.

Contents:

Prologue : two birthdays

Conquest

White supremacy and the settler state

From UDI to Lancaster House

ZANU in power : the 1980s

When the wheels began to fall off : the 1990s

Disaster years and the third chimurenga

From Operation Murambatsvina to an inclusive government

How did it go wrong?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-290) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786613238580

9781350218918

135021891X

9781780321073

1780321074

9781283238588

1283238586

9781848135222

184813522X

OCLC:

756844226