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Mugabeism? : History, Politics, and Power in Zimbabwe / edited by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- African Histories and Modernities, 2634-5781
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--History.
- Africa.
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan--History.
- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Economic development.
- African History.
- African Politics.
- History of Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Development Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- African History.
- African Politics.
- History of Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Development Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe making it possible to evaluate Mugabe from a historical, political, philosophical, gender, literal and decolonial perspectives. It is concerned with capturing various meanings of Mugabeism.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Mugabeism and entanglements of history, politics and power in the making of Zimbabwe / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni.
- Part 1: Mugabeism, economic nationalism and pan-Africanism. Robert Mugabe: an intellectual manqué and his moments of meaning / David B. Moore
- Mugabe on land, indigenization and development / Alois S. Mlambo
- Mugabe's neo-sultanist rule: beyond the veil of pan-Africanism / Gorden Moyo.
- Part 2: Diplomacy, solidarity and power. Intransigent diplomat: Robert Mugabe and his western diplomacy / Timothy Scarnecchia
- Sheriff in the club of dictators?: Robert Mugabe's role in the politics of Southern Africa / Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Joseph Jakarasi
- In the footsteps of Robert Gabriel Mugabe: Namibian solidarity with Mugabe's populism: (bogus) anti-imperialism in practice / Henning Melber
- Robert Mugabe: the will to power and crisis of the paradigm of war / Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni.
- Part 3: Masculinity, gender and corruption. Mugabe the man-nation: two views of culture and history in the construction of Zimbabwe / Robert Muponde
- Grappling with Mugabe's masculinist politics in Zimbabwe: a gender perspective / Rudo B. Gaidzanwa
- Corruption and the comrades: Mugabe and the 'fight' against corruption in Zimbabwe / Wesley Mwatwara and Joseph Mujere.
- Part 4: Global coloniality, racism and militarism. Mugabe's land reform and the provocation of global white anti-black racism / Kenneth Tafira
- A Fanonian reading of Robert Gabriel Mugabe as colonial subject / Tendayi Sithole
- African leadership in the age of Euro-North American-centric modernity: a decolonial critique of Robert Mugabe / Morgan Ndlovu
- Mugabe and the military alliance: Zimbabwe's prospects of democratic transition / Kudzai Matereke and Niveen el Moghazy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137543462
- 1137543469
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