Zimbabwe: Challenging the stereotypes

Zimbabwe: Challenging the stereotypes

"Zimbabwe: Challenging the Stereotypes" brings the story of Zimbabwe up-to-date (2014) in a dramatic, readable, firsthand description of thirty four years of Zimbabweâ€™s history by a South African academic, writer and arts educationist who went through it all â€“ from Independence to the present. While it confirms some of the Westâ€™s criticisms, it offers a unique alternative viewpoint and questions a number of long-held and seldom challenged beliefs, including the almost universal clichÃ© that at Independence Zimbabwe had everything going for it and threw it all away through bad government. It offers a fresh assessment of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabweâ€™s military involvement in the Congo, the Gukurahundi massacres in Matebeleland, sanctions, human rights, the rule of law, the media and culture in Zimbabwe and builds on recent research which demonstrates that the reality of the Land Reform and other aspects of the countryâ€™s recent history belie the unquestioned and widely-propagated myths.
Extracts from pre-publication previews:
â€œAnyone interested in Zimbabweâ€™s recent history should read this book...thoroughly recommendedâ€¦â€
â€” Prof. Ian Scoones, University of Sussex, UK, co-author of Zimbabweâ€™s Land Reform: Myths and Realities
â€œRefreshingly daring, original, inventive and captivating,...highly controversial and likely to stir heated debateâ€
â€” Prof. Micere Githae Mugo, Syracuse University, US, Kenyan poet, playwright and essayist, author of Writing and Speaking from the Heart of My Mind
â€œTold with brutal honesty. A book all South Africans â€“ and indeed all who wish to learn â€“ must readâ€
â€” Maishe Maponya, South African playwright and poet, author of The Hungry Earth and Gangsters.
Country USA
Manufacturer Themba Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-11-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Themba Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-11-01
Format	Kindle eBook

Zimbabwe: Challenging the stereotypes

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