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In early 2000, a process of land occupation began in Zimbabwe. It involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of black farmers onto mostly white-owned farms, often under the leadership of veterans of Zimbabwe's 1970s liberation war. The ZANU(PF) government cast this moment as the end of colonialism. Others saw it as mere electioneering, the desperate machinations of an illegitimate government.
This poorly understood crisis has deep roots. In the settler period the government of Rhodesia divided the land along racial lines leaving the black population in poor and overcrowded reserves. Independent Zimbabwe not only inherited this profoundly unequal division of land but also a potent institutional and ideological legacy of contested claims to authority over the land. This combustible mix shaped political desires and discourses, as well as state and African institutions, setting the stage for the dramatic upheavals of 2000 and beyond.
North America: Ohio U Press; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press(PB)
This poorly understood crisis has deep roots. In the settler period the government of Rhodesia divided the land along racial lines leaving the black population in poor and overcrowded reserves. Independent Zimbabwe not only inherited this profoundly unequal division of land but also a potent institutional and ideological legacy of contested claims to authority over the land. This combustible mix shaped political desires and discourses, as well as state and African institutions, setting the stage for the dramatic upheavals of 2000 and beyond.
North America: Ohio U Press; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press(PB)
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This careful treatment is sure to set a new standard for histories of state-making in Africa.
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A well-researched book[...]It is highly recommended to all Zimbabweanists and scholars of colonial African history.
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- PublisherJames Currey
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0852558937
- ISBN 13 9780852558935
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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