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The politician-cum-academic Gorden Moyo’s chapter introduces an important concept of ‘imperialism of decolonization’ whereby the colonial powers worked actively but subtle to identify and promote those African leaders they considered being useful for neocolonialism and protection of their interests after the end of juridical colonialism. He posits in his chapter that the British towards the end of their empire they consistently but invisibly favoured Mugabe over Nkomo. Nkomo, ZAPU and ZIPRA’s close alliance with the Soviet Union disadvantaged them in the context of the Cold War. Moyo also reveals that at Lancaster House Conference Mugabe knew the British were on his side and just pretended to be radical to hide his complicity with the imperial power. To Moyo, Mugabe was a ‘recruited’ and ‘managed’ inheritor of the colonial state of Zimbabwe in the broader context of imperial global designs.
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Moyo, G. (2017). The Entrapment of Joshua Nkomo Within Global Imperial Snares. In: Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. (eds) Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe. African Histories and Modernities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60555-5_5
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