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Making history in Mugabe's Zimbabwe : politics, intellectuals, and the media

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The crisis that has engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000 is not simply a struggle against dictatorship.

It is also a struggle over ideas and deep-seated historical issues, still unresolved from the independence process, that both Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF regime and Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC are vying first to define and then to address.

This book traces the role of politicians and public intellectuals in media, civil society and the academy in producing and disseminating a politically usable historical narrative concerning ideas about patriotism, race, land, human rights and sovereignty.

It raises pressing questions about the role of contemporary African intellectuals in the making of democratic societies.

In so doing the book adds a new and rich dimension to the study of African politics, which is often diluted by the neglect of ideas.

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Verlag Peter Lang
3039119893 / 9783039119899
Paperback / softback
09/09/2010
Switzerland
English
304 p. : ill.
23 cm