Mugabeism?: History, Politics, and Power in Zimbabwe

by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (Editor)

Overview

What is distinctive about this book is its interdisciplinary approach towards deciphering the complex meanings of President Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe making it possible to evaluate Mugabe from a historical, political, philosophical, gender, literal and decolonial perspectives. It is concerned with capturing various meanings of Mugabeism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137543448
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	08/06/2015
Series:	African Histories and Modernities
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	319
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Rudo Gaidzanwa Joseph Jakarasi Kudzai Matereke Henning Melber Alois Mlambo Niveen El Moghazy Gorden Moyo David Moore Busani Mpofu Joseph Mujere Robert Muponde Wesley Mwatwara Morgan Ndlovu Munyaradzi Nyakudya Timothy Scarnecchia Tendayi Sithole Kenneth Tafira

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Mugabeism And Entanglements Of History, Politics And Power In The Making Of Zimbabwe; Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

PART I: MUGABEISM, ECONOMIC NATIONALISM AND PAN-AFRICANISM

2. Robert Mugabe: An Intellectual Manqué and His Moments of Meaning; David B. Moore

3. Mugabe on Land, Indigenization and Development; Alois S. Mlambo

4. Mugabe ' 's Neo-Sultanist Rule: Beyond the Veil of Pan-Africanism; Gorden Moyo

PART II: DIPLOMACY, SOLIDARITY AND POWER

5. Intransigent Diplomat: Robert Mugabe and His Western Diplomacy; Timothy Scarnecchia

6. Sheriff in the Club of Dictators? Robert Mugabe ' 's Role in the Politics of Southern Africa; Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Joseph Jakarasi

7. In the Footsteps of Robert Gabriel Mugabe: Namibian Solidarity with Mugabe ' 's Populism: (Bogus) Anti-Imperialism in Practice; Henning Melber

8. Robert Mugabe: The Will to Power and Crisis of the Paradigm of War; Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

PART III: MASCULINITY, GENDER AND CORRUPTION

9. Mugabe the Man-Nation: Two Views of Culture and History in the Construction of Zimbabwe; Robert Muponde

10. Grappling with Mugabe ' 's Masculinist Politics in Zimbabwe: A Gender Perspective; Rudo B. Gaidzanwa

11. Corruption and the Comrades: Mugabe and the ' 'Fight ' ' Against Corruption in Zimbabwe; Wesley Mwatwara and Joseph Mujere

PART IV: GLOBAL COLONIALITY, RACISM AND MILITARISM

12. Mugabe ' 's Land Reform and the Provocation of Global White Anti-Black Racism; Kenneth Tafira

13. A Fanonian Reading of Robert Gabriel Mugabe as Colonial Subject; Tendayi Sithole

14. African Leadership in the Age of Euro-North American-centric Modernity: A Decolonial Critique of Robert Mugabe; Morgan Ndlovu

15. Mugabe and the Military Alliance: Zimbabwe ' 's Prospects of Democratic Transition; Kudzai Matereke and Niveen El Moghazy