A New Zimbabwe?

A New Zimbabwe?
Author: Alexander H. Noyes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781977404343

This report presents Zimbabwe's political and economic reform efforts since President Robert Mugabe's overthrow and offers recommendations for how to help the country recover.

Excelgate

Excelgate
Author: Jonathan N. Moyo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2019
Genre: Elections
ISBN: 9781779295835

We Need New Names

We Need New Names
Author: NoViolet Bulawayo
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316230839

This unflinching and powerful novel tells the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review). Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her — from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee — while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. "Original, witty, and devastating." —People

Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Author: Oliver Nyambi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2021-11-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000470288

This book investigates how culture reflects change in Zimbabwe, focusing predominantly on Mnangagwa’s 2017 coup, but also uncovering deeper roots for how renewal and transition are conceived in the country. Since Emmerson Mnangagwa ousted Robert Mugabe in 2017, he has been keen to defi ne his "Second Republic" or "New Dispensation" with a rhetoric of change and a rejection of past political and economic cultures. This multi and inter- disciplinary volume looks to the (social) media, language/ discourse, theatre, images, political speeches and literary fiction and non- fiction to see how they have reflected on this time of unprecedented upheaval. The book argues that themes of self- renewal stretch right back to the formative years of the ZANU PF, and that despite the longevity of Mugabe’s tenure, the latest transition can be seen as part of a complex and protracted layering of postcolonial social, economic and political changes. Providing an innovative investigation of how political change in Zimbabwe is reflected on in cultural texts and products, this book will be of interest to researchers across African history, literature, politics, culture and post- colonial studies.

Zimbabwe's Exodus

Zimbabwe's Exodus
Author: Jonathan Crush
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1552504999

The ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe has led to an unprecedented exodus of over a million desperate people from all strata of Zimbabwean society. The Zimbabwean diaspora is now truly global in extent. Yet rather than turning their backs on Zimbabwe, most maintain very close links with the country, returning often and remitting billions of dollars each year. Zimbabwe's Exodus. Crisis, Migration, Survival is written by leading migration scholars many from the Zimbabwean diaspora. The book explores the relationship between Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis and migration as a survival strategy. The book includes personal stories of ordinary Zimbabweans living and working in other countries, who describe the hotility and xenophobia they often experience.

Zimbabwe's New Diaspora

Zimbabwe's New Diaspora
Author: JoAnn McGregor
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1845458419

Zimbabwe’s crisis since 2000 has produced a dramatic global scattering of people. This volume investigates this enforced dispersal, and the processes shaping the emergence of a new "diaspora" of Zimbabweans abroad, focusing on the most important concentrations in South Africa and in Britain. Not only is this the first book on the diasporic connections created through Zimbabwe’s multifaceted crisis, but it also offers an innovative combination of research on the political, economic, cultural and legal dimensions of movement across borders and survival thereafter with a discussion of shifting identities and cultural change. It highlights the ways in which new movements are connected to older flows, and how displacements across physical borders are intimately linked to the reworking of conceptual borders in both sending and receiving states. The book is essential reading for researchers/students in migration, diaspora and postcolonial literary studies.

Zimbabwe Takes Back Its Land

Zimbabwe Takes Back Its Land
Author: Joseph Hanlon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Agriculture and state
ISBN: 9781565495203

The news from Zimbabwe is usually unremittingly bleak owing to the success of the Mugabe regime’s control of information and sequestration/elimination of political opponents. Perhaps no issue has aroused such ire as the land reforms Mugabe has implemented, which, according to what journalist reports are available, have largely benefited Mugabe’s cronies. ZimbabweTakes Back it Land, however, offers a much more positive and nuanced assessment of land reform in Zimbabwe, one that counters the dominant narratives of oppression and economic stagnation. While not minimizing the depredations of the Mugabe regime, and admitting that many of Mugabe’s supporters benefited from the dictators largesse, the authors show how ordinary Zimbabweans have taken charge of their destinies in creative and unacknowledged ways through their use of land holdings obtained through Mugabe’s land reform programs. This is an inspiring story of collective agency by the exploited, and how development can take place in even the most hostile of circumstances.

The Rise of the African Novel

The Rise of the African Novel
Author: Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-03-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 047205368X

Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition

The Political Life of an Epidemic

The Political Life of an Epidemic
Author: Simukai Chigudu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2020-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108489109

Reveals how the crisis of Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak of 2008-9 had profound implications for political institutions and citizenship.