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'This book penetrates beneath the rhetoric of Zimbabwe’s ZANU PF party and its critics to analyze the historical narrative called Patriotic History, which underlies the rhetoric and fundamental differences between Robert Mugabe and his opponents. Intellectuals and politicians on both sides are held to account in this important book.' (Princeton N. Lyman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations (Washington, DC))
The crisis that has engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000 is not simply a struggle
against dictatorship. It is also a struggle over ideas and deep-seated
historical issues, still unresolved from the independence process, that both
Robert Mugabes ZANU PF regime and Morgan Tsvangirais MDC are vying
first to define and then to address. This book traces the role of politicians
and public intellectuals in media, civil society and the academy in producing
and disseminating a politically usable historical narrative concerning ideas
about patriotism, race, land, human rights and sovereignty. It raises pressing
questions about the role of contemporary African intellectuals in the making of
democratic societies. In so doing the book adds a new and rich dimension to the
study of African politics, which is often diluted by the neglect of ideas.
against dictatorship. It is also a struggle over ideas and deep-seated
historical issues, still unresolved from the independence process, that both
Robert Mugabes ZANU PF regime and Morgan Tsvangirais MDC are vying
first to define and then to address. This book traces the role of politicians
and public intellectuals in media, civil society and the academy in producing
and disseminating a politically usable historical narrative concerning ideas
about patriotism, race, land, human rights and sovereignty. It raises pressing
questions about the role of contemporary African intellectuals in the making of
democratic societies. In so doing the book adds a new and rich dimension to the
study of African politics, which is often diluted by the neglect of ideas.
