Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe

Politics, Power, and Memory

Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:11th Aug '18

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This book is a pioneering study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a Zimbabwean nationalist whose crucial role in the country’s anti-colonial struggle has largely gone unrecognized. These essays trace his early influence on Zimbabwean nationalism in the late 1950s and his leadership in the armed liberation movement and postcolonial national-building processes, as well as his denigration by the winners of the 1980 elections, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. The Nkomo that emerges is complex and contested, the embodiment of Zimbabwe’s tortured trajectory from colony to independent postcolonial state. This is an essential corrective to the standard history of twentieth-century Zimbabwe, and an invaluable resource for scholars of African nationalist liberation movements and nation-building.

ISBN: 9783319868875

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454 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017