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Making History in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
Politics, Intellectuals and the Media
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Artikel-Nr:
9783039119899
Veröffentl:
2010
Seiten:
286
Autor:
Blessing-Miles Tendi
Gewicht:
440 g
Format:
225x150x16 mm
Serie:
4, Nationalisms across the Globe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Blessing-Miles Tendi (D.Phil.) is Zimbabwean. He was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. Tendi is a United Kingdom-based researcher in African politics.
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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Contents: African Nationalism - Robert Mugabe - Public Intellectuals - Patriotic History - The Use of History to Legitimise Power - Human Rights - Sovereignty - Race Relations - History and Politics of Land in Africa - Nationalism - Ethnicity.