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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2009): Africa Review of Books, Volume 5, n° 2, 2009

Issue Published : January 6, 2022

4 - The Roots of Political Violence in Zimbabwe

https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v5i2.4851
Bhekinkosi Moyo
professor at Wits Business School at the University of the Witwatersrand and director of the Africa Centre on Philanthropy and Social Investment.

Corresponding Author(s) : Bhekinkosi Moyo

bhekinkosi.moyo@wits.ac.za

Africa Review of Books, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2009): Africa Review of Books, Volume 5, n° 2, 2009
Article Published : September 12, 2009

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The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe: Harare and Highfiled, 1940-1964
by Timothy Scarnecchia, University of Rochester Press, 2008


Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores self-respect’, argued Frantz Fanon in his popular book, The Wretched of the Earth. That work became a handbook for revolutionaries. Likewise, Timothy Scarnecchia’s The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe is every scholar and activist’s dictionary, giving meaning to various pages and vocabulary in the Zimbabwean book
of violence. In other words, if you have always sought to find out the author of Zimbabwe’s violence, you have the answer in the pages of Scarnechia’s clear, concise and explosive exposé. Many of us have always argued that Zimbabwe’s violent nature was scripted in the years leading to the struggle for independence. We did not always have the evidence or data to support these claims. Now, we have a well-researched study that takes the reader back to the early formations of democratic spaces in Zimbabwe and how those spaces were eventually closed to make way for violence, manipulation...

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  1. Blair, D., 2002, Degrees in Violence: Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power in Zimbabwe, London: Continuum.
  2. Fanon, F. ,1963, The Wretched of the Earth, Great Britain: Macgibbon & Kee.
  3. Kriger, N., 2003, Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980-1987, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  4. Moore, D., 2005, Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe, Harare: Weaver Press.
  5. Nyagumbo, M., 1980, With the People: An Autobiography from the Zimbabwe Struggle, London: Allison and Busby.
  6. Shamuyarira, N., 1965, Crisis in Rhodesia, London: A. Deutsch.
  7. White, L., 2003, The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
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References


Blair, D., 2002, Degrees in Violence: Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power in Zimbabwe, London: Continuum.

Fanon, F. ,1963, The Wretched of the Earth, Great Britain: Macgibbon & Kee.

Kriger, N., 2003, Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980-1987, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Moore, D., 2005, Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe, Harare: Weaver Press.

Nyagumbo, M., 1980, With the People: An Autobiography from the Zimbabwe Struggle, London: Allison and Busby.

Shamuyarira, N., 1965, Crisis in Rhodesia, London: A. Deutsch.

White, L., 2003, The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe, Indiana: Indiana University Press.

Author Biography

Bhekinkosi Moyo, professor at Wits Business School at the University of the Witwatersrand and director of the Africa Centre on Philanthropy and Social Investment.

BHEKINKOSI MOYO is Program Director at TrustAfrica. He has written extensively on civil society, democracy and development in Africa. His recent book is an edited collection titled Africa in Global Power Play. He has just completed editing The State of Philanthropy in Africa and is currently editing a collection of chapters on the legislative environment for civil society in Africa.

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