Mugabeism? : history, politics, and power in Zimbabwe

Resource Information

The work Mugabeism? : history, politics, and power in Zimbabwe represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Mugabeism? : history, politics, and power in Zimbabwe

Title remainder

history, politics, and power in Zimbabwe

Statement of responsibility

[edited by] Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Contributor

• Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.

Author

• Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.

Editor

• Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.

Writer of introduction

• Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.

Subject

• Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924-
• Political leadership -- Zimbabwe
• Zimbabwe
• Zimbabwe
• Zimbabwe -- History -- 1980-
• Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1980-
• Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924-

Language

eng

Summary

President Robert Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe is an enigmatic figure who has been in power for over three decades. He is a difficult subject to understand because his political life has attracted both admirers and critics. This book is the first of its kind to try and make sense of the meaning of Mugabe from an interdisciplinary vantage point. It poses the difficult question of what Mugabeism means. What emerges is Mugabe as colonial, nationalist, and postcolonial subject manifesting complex ambivalences, ambiguities, and contradictions. Mugabe is at once a liberator, Machiavellian dictator, champion of socio-economic justice, patriarch, pan-Africanist, anti-democrat, and an anti-imperialist revolutionary. He is at once a progenitor and undertaker of Zimbabwe. He is at once popular and unpopular. It is these meanings of Mugabe that are explored in this book

Member of

• African histories and modernities
• Online access with purchase: Palgrave Connect (History Collection)
• Online access with purchase: Springer

Cataloging source

UKPGM

Dewey number

968.9105/1

Index

index present

LC call number

DT3000

LC item number

.M84 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

African histories and modernities