Zimbabwe: Challenging the stereotypes

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“Zimbabwe: Challenging the Stereotypes” brings the story of Zimbabwe up-to-date (2014) in a dramatic, readable, firsthand description of thirty four years of Zimbabwe’s history by a South African academic, author and arts educationist who went through it all – from Independence to the present. Whilst it confirms one of the West’s criticisms, it offers a unique alternative viewpoint and questions a lot of long-held and seldom challenged beliefs, including the almost universal cliché that at Independence Zimbabwe had everything going for it and threw it all away through bad government. It offers a fresh assessment of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s military involvement in the Congo, the Gukurahundi massacres in Matebeleland, sanctions, human rights, the rule of law, the media and culture in Zimbabwe and builds on up to date research which demonstrates that the reality of the Land Reform and other aspects of the country’s up to date history belie the unquestioned and widely-propagated myths. Extracts from pre-publication previews: “Anyone interested in Zimbabwe’s up to date history should read this book…thoroughly really helpful…” — Prof. Ian Scoones, University of Sussex, UK, co-creator of Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: Myths and Realities “Refreshingly daring, original, inventive and captivating,…highly controversial and likely to stir heated debate” — Prof. Micere Githae Mugo, Syracuse University, US, Kenyan poet, playwright and essayist, creator of Writing and Speaking from the Heart of My Mind “Told with brutal honesty. A book all South Africans – and indeed all who want to learn – should read” — Maishe Maponya, South African playwright and poet, creator of The Hungry Earth and Gangsters.

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