Healing the wounds of Gukurahundi : a participatory action research project / Dumisani Ngwenya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ngwenya, Dumisani, author.

Series:

Anthropocene (Cham, Switzerland) ; 19.

The Anthropocene: Politik-Economics-Society-Science ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zimbabwe African National Union.

Crimes against humanity--Zimbabwe--History--20th century.

Crimes against humanity.

Atrocities--Zimbabwe--History.

Atrocities.

History.

Zimbabwe--Social conditions.

Zimbabwe.

Social conditions.

Zimbabwe--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xxi, 266 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

This book is based on a participatory action research project carried out with a group of former Zimbabwe People's revolutionary Army (ZPRA) which was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) which was led by the late Joshua Nkomo. ZPRA was the primary target of Gukurahundi, a pogrom by the Mugabe government which left an estimated 20 000 civilians dead and countless others tortured in the early 1980s in Matebeleland, Zimbabwe. It has been almost 30 years since the violence ended, but there has never been an official healing and reconciliation programme or truth commission into the atrocities. The government chose the path of amnesia by granting a blanket amnesty to all involved. The regime has enforced a culture of silence over the event through repression and intimidation. The book is a culmination of a two year journey, by the group and the author, of an exploration of group-based self-healing approaches to the pain caused by the violence of Gukurahundi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Ngwenya, Dumisani. Healing the wounds of Gukurahundi.

ISBN:

9783319668178

331966817X

OCLC:

994783209