Re Living The Second Chimurenga

Author : Fay Chung
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : National liberation movements
ISBN : 9781779220462

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Re-living the Second Chimurenga by Fay Chung Pdf

This retrospective offers a first hand account on internal conflicts in ZANU during the 1970s, which resulted in the defeat of its left wing. Chung's narratives include her experiences in two guerrilla camps. She recalls her encounters with the charismatic Josiah Tongogara, a legendary military commander during Zimbabwe's liberation war (known as the ©second chimurenga♯), who died at the threshold to Independence. The personal recollection of a transition to national sovereignty concludes with an incisive analysis of developments after Independence. It ends with Chung's vision for the Zimbabwe of the future. Fay Chung served within the Ministry of Education in post-colonial Zimbabwe for a total of fourteen years, at the end as the Minister of Education and Culture. Her autobiographical account has the childhood experiences in colonial Rhodesia as a point of departure. Like many other Zimbabwean intellectuals she joined the liberation struggle. From the mid-1970s she worked within the ZANU-organised educational sphere.

Author : Peter Godwin
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316032094

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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin Pdf

After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years. Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his father's sanctuary from another identity, another world. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.

Author : Jennifer W. Kyker
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253022387

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Oliver Mtukudzi by Jennifer W. Kyker Pdf

Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artists to have a beat named after him, Mtukudzi blends Zimbabwean traditional sounds with South African township music and American gospel and soul, to compose what is known as Tuku Music. In this biography, Jennifer W. Kyker looks at Mtukudzi's life and art, from his encounters with Rhodesian soldiers during the Zimbabwe war of liberation to his friendship with American blues artist Bonnie Raitt. With unprecedented access to Mtukudzi, Kyker breaks down his distinctive performance style using the Shona concept of "hunhu," or human identity through moral relationships, as a framework. By reading Mtukudzi's life in connection with his lyrics and the social milieu in which they were created, Kyker offers an engaging portrait of one of African music's most recognized performers. Interviews with family, friends, and band members make this a penetrating, sensitive, and uplifting biography of one of the world's most popular musicians.

Author : Robert Calderisi
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466887718

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The Trouble with Africa by Robert Calderisi Pdf

After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of Africa's misfortunes are self-imposed, and why the world must now deal differently with the continent. Here we learn that Africa has steadily lost markets by its own mismanagement, that even capitalist countries are anti-business, that African family values and fatalism are more destructive than tribalism, and that African leaders prey intentionally on Western guilt. Calderisi exposes the shortcomings of foreign aid and debt relief, and proposes his own radical solutions. Drawing on thirty years of first hand experience, The Trouble with Africa highlights issues which have been ignored by Africa's leaders but have worried ordinary Africans, diplomats, academics, business leaders, aid workers, volunteers, and missionaries for a long time. It ripples with stories which only someone who has talked directly to African farmers--and heads of state--could recount. Calderisi's aim is to move beyond the hand-wringing and finger-pointing which dominates most discussions of Africa. Instead, he suggests concrete steps which Africans and the world can take to liberate talent and enterprise on the continent.

Author : George Mujajati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political plays
ISBN : UCAL:B3880817

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The Rain of My Blood by George Mujajati Pdf

Author : Shimmer Chinodya
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781779223289

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Harvest of Thorns by Shimmer Chinodya Pdf

The 1990 Commonwealth Writers Regional Prize voted Harvest of Thorns the winner in the Best Book category. Harvest of Thorns tells the story of Benjamin Tichafa who grows up in Rhodesia in the 1960s. From a conservative, religious family, but exposed to the heady ideas of the black nationalist movements, the young student is pulled in different directions. Isolated and troubled at boarding school, he is provoked into leaving, making his way to Mozambique, and joining the freedom fighters. There, in the crucible of a bitter civil war of liberation, the young man develops into manhood. Returning, hardened, at independence, he feels that little has changed, not least within his own family circumstances, and asks himself what it means to be free in the new Zimbabwe.

Author : Robert Gabriel Mugabe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122145860

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The Third Chimurenga by Robert Gabriel Mugabe Pdf

Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612190075

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Nairobi Heat by Mukoma Wa Ngugi Pdf

A cop from Wisconsin pursues a killer through the terrifying slums of Nairobi and the memories of genocide IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, it’s a big deal when African peace activist Joshua Hakizimana—who saved hundreds of people from the Rwandan genocide—accepts a position at the university to teach about “genocide and testimony.” Then a young woman is found murdered on his doorstep. Local police Detective Ishmael—an African-American in an “extremely white” town—suspects the crime is racially motivated; the Ku Klux Klan still holds rallies there, after all. But then he gets a mysterious phone call: “If you want the truth, you must go to its source. The truth is in the past. Come to Nairobi.” It’s the beginning of a journey that will take him to a place still vibrating from the genocide that happened around its borders, where violence is a part of everyday life, where big-oil money rules and where the local cops shoot first and ask questions later—a place, in short, where knowing the truth about history can get you killed.

Author : Lee G. Bolman,Terrence E. Deal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118046647

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The Wizard and the Warrior by Lee G. Bolman,Terrence E. Deal Pdf

The Wizard and the Warrior gives leaders the insight and courage they need to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide. Great leaders must act both as wizard, calling on imagination, creativity, meaning, and magic, and as warrior, mobilizing strength, courage, and willingness to fight as necessary to fulfill their mission. Best-selling authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal present the defining moments and experiences of exemplary leaders such as Carly Fiorina, Thomas Keller (head chef of French Laundry), David Neeleman (CEO of Jet Blue), Mary Kay Ash, Warren Buffet, Anne Mulcahy, and Abraham Lincoln3⁄4all of whom have wrested with their own inner warrior and wizard. These engaging, realistic case studies are followed by commentaries that will raise questions and suggest possibilities without rushing to resolution or simple answers.

Author : NoViolet Bulawayo
Publisher : Reagan Arthur Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316230834

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We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Pdf

Finalist for the Booker Prize: the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America (New York Times Book Review), from the author of Glory. Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her — from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee — while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. "Original, witty, and devastating." —People

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319605555

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Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Pdf

This book is a pioneering study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a Zimbabwean nationalist whose crucial role in the country’s anti-colonial struggle has largely gone unrecognized. These essays trace his early influence on Zimbabwean nationalism in the late 1950s and his leadership in the armed liberation movement and postcolonial national-building processes, as well as his denigration by the winners of the 1980 elections, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. The Nkomo that emerges is complex and contested, the embodiment of Zimbabwe’s tortured trajectory from colony to independent postcolonial state. This is an essential corrective to the standard history of twentieth-century Zimbabwe, and an invaluable resource for scholars of African nationalist liberation movements and nation-building.

Author : Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842775839

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Africa's Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging by Francis B. Nyamnjoh Pdf

An overview of the press and mass media in Africa today and their contribution to democratization

Author : Richard Bourne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780321073

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Catastrophe by Richard Bourne Pdf

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 which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in 1980 became a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy and abandonment by a third of its citizens less than thirty years later. Beginning with the British conquest of Zimbabwe and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, this is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and readable account of the ongoing crisis. Bourne shows that Zimbabwe's tragedy is not just about Mugabe's 'evil' but about history, Africa today and the world's attitudes towards them.

Author : Kirk Helliker,Sandra Bhatasara,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030663483

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Fast Track Land Occupations in Zimbabwe by Kirk Helliker,Sandra Bhatasara,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe Pdf

This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state’s fast track land reform programme. In an innovative way, it highlights the decentralized character of the occupations by recognizing significant spatial variation around a number of key themes, including historical memory, modes of mobilization and gender. A case study of the land occupations in Mashonaland Central Province, based on original research, adds empirical weight to the argument. In further identifying and understanding the specificities and complexities of the land occupations, the book also frames them by way of a nuanced comparative-historical analysis of the three zvimurenga. It thus examines the land occupations (referred to, likely controversially, as the ‘third chimurenga’) with reference to the original anti-colonial revolt from the 1890s (the first chimurenga) and the war of liberation in the 1970s (the second chimurenga). Further, the book engages critically with the ruling party’s chimurenga narrative and the hegemonic understanding of the land occupations within Zimbabwean studies. This book is a crucial read for all scholars and students of post-2000 land and politics in Zimbabwe, but also for those more broadly interested in historical-comparative analyses of land struggles in Zimbabwe and beyond.

Author : Blessing-Miles Tendi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472890

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The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe by Blessing-Miles Tendi Pdf

An essential biographical record of General Solomon Mujuru, one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics.