Mugabeism?

History, Politics, and Power in Zimbabwe

  • Editors
  • Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Book

Part of the African Histories and Modernities book series (AHAM)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Mugabeism and Entanglements of History, Politics, and Power in the Making of Zimbabwe

    1. Introduction: Mugabeism and Entanglements of History, Politics, and Power in the Making of Zimbabwe
      Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
      Pages 1-25

  3. Mugabeism, Economic Nationalism, and Pan-Africanism

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 27-27
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    2. Robert Mugabe: An Intellectual Manqué and His Moments of Meaning
      David B. Moore
      Pages 29-44
    3. Mugabe on Land, Indigenization, and Development
      Alois S. Mlambo
      Pages 45-59
    4. Mugabe’s Neo-sultanist Rule: Beyond the Veil of Pan-Africanism
      Gorden Moyo
      Pages 61-74

  4. Diplomacy, Solidarity, and Power

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 75-75
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    2. Intransigent Diplomat: Robert Mugabe and His Western Diplomacy, 1963–1983
      Timothy Scarnecchia
      Pages 77-91
    3. Sheriff in the “Club of Dictators”?: Robert Mugabe’s Role in the Politics of Southern Africa, 1976–2013
      Munyaradzi Nyakudya, Joseph Jakarasi
      Pages 93-106
    4. In the Footsteps of Robert Gabriel Mugabe: Namibian Solidarity with Mugabe’s Populism—(Bogus) Anti-imperialism in Practice
      Henning Melber
      Pages 107-120
    5. Robert Mugabe: The Will to Power and Crisis of the Paradigm of War
      Busani Mpofu, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
      Pages 121-133

  5. Masculinity, Gender, and Corruption

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 135-135
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    2. Mugabe the Man-Nation: Two Views of Culture in the Construction of Masculinities in Zimbabwe
      Robert Muponde
      Pages 137-156
    3. Grappling with Mugabe’s Masculinist Politics in Zimbabwe: A Gender Perspective
      Rudo B. Gaidzanwa
      Pages 157-179
    4. Corruption and the Comrades: Mugabe and the “Fight” against Corruption in Zimbabwe, 1980–2013
      Wesley Mwatwara, Joseph Mujere
      Pages 181-199

  6. Global Coloniality, Racism, and Militarism

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 201-201
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    2. Mugabe’s Land Reform and the Provocation of Global White Antiblack Racism
      Chimusoro Kenneth Tafira
      Pages 203-216
    3. A Fanonian Reading of Robert Gabriel Mugabe as Colonial Subject
      Tendayi Sithole
      Pages 217-236
    4. African Leadership in the Age of Euro-North American-Centric Modernity: A Decolonial Critique of Robert Mugabe
      Morgan Ndlovu
      Pages 237-248
    5. Mugabe and the Military Alliance: Zimbabwe’s Prospects of Democratic Transition
      Kudzai Matereke, Niveen El Moghazy
      Pages 249-272

About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

15th century Africa African coloniality crisis critique culture gender history imperialism nationalism philosophy politics Southern Africa subject

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137543462
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, New York
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-56713-3
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-54346-2
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