Mugabe's Legacy

Coups, Conspiracies, and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe

Mugabe's Legacy
David B Moore
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2 Jun 2022 UK
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9781787387713
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Zimbabwe' s party-internal ' coup' of 2017, and deposed president Robert Mugabe' s death nearly two years later, demand careful, historically nuanced explanation. How did Mugabe gain and retain power over party and state for four decades? Did the suspected and nearly real ' coups' , the conspiracies behind them, and their concurrent mythomaniacal conceits ultimately, ironically, spell his near-tragic end? Has Mugabe' s particular mode of power reached a finality with his own downfall, as his successors struggle more to balance Zimbabwe' s political contradictions? Will the phalanxes arrayed against Mugabe' s control fray further, as Zimbabwe fades? Mugabe' s Legacy delves deeply into such questions, drawing on more than forty years of archival and interview-based research on Zimbabwe' s political history and current precariousness. Starting with the mid-1970s, it traces how Machiavellian moves allowed Mugabe to reach the apex of the Zimbabwe African National Union' s already slippery slopes, through the complexities of Cold War, regional, ideological, generational, inter- and intra-party tensions. The lessons learned by the president and the nascent ruling party then turned gradually inward, ultimately arriving at a near-collapse that may now pervade all of the country' s political space. David B. Moore vividly charts this rise and fall, all the way to Zimbabwe' s tenuous chaos today.
' Moore' s deft and dramatic political history of Mugabe' s rise and humiliating fall unpacks a tragic and continuing Animal Farm legacy. Comprehensive in its treatment of Zimbabwe' s major political events and actors, this is an intriguing and timely read. ' -- NoViolet Bulawayo, Zimbabwean novelist ' "Mugabe' s Legacy" is sharp, erudite, often funny, and full of unexpected and unusual critical insights. I enjoyed reading it. ' -- Joost Fontein, Professor of Anthropology, University of Johannesburg, and co-editor of ' Legacies of Struggle in Southern & Eastern Africa' ' What was the impact of Mugabe' s life and death? Moore' s answer is a fascinating journey through power, using Gramsci to give us an original reading of how it was conquered and how rule was exercised in Zimbabwe. A must-read!' -- Isabella Soi, Department of Social and Political Science, University of Cagliari ' By far the best account I' ve ever read of the processes and events in and around Zimbabwe over the past 40 years. A most formidable work of scholarship and a sordid and sorry tale. This is Moore at the top of his game!' -- Ian Phimister, Senior Research Professor, University of the Free State, South Africa ' An entertaining and rewarding read, combining personal memoir, rigorous scholarship, and an irreverent style. Moore links the generational struggles behind the military' s overthrow of Mugabe to his violent purge of radical, younger challengers during the liberation war. ' -- Norma J. Kriger, author of ' Zimbabwe' s Guerrilla War' ' Insightful, impressively knowledgeable and masterfully presented, this analysis of decades of Mugabe' s manipulative leadership and his legacy is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand the forces that have shaped ZANU-PF' s turbulent history and Zimbabwe' s current crisis. ' -- Alois Mlambo, Emeritus Professor of History and Heritage, University of Pretoria, and co-author of ' A History of Southern Africa' ' A fascinating narrative addressing long-term questions on primitive accumulation, nation-building and democratisation, and interrogating the history of nationalist politics. Drawing on archival diplomatic sources, interviews, anecdotes and rumour, this is a compelling, radical critique, with an aura of magical realism. ' -- Brian Raftopoulos, scholar, activist and co-author of ' Becoming Zimbabwe'
David B. Moore is a professor of Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg, who has been researching and writing on Zimbabwe' s political history and political economy since the early 1980s. He has also pursued Marxist and Gramscian theories of development discourse and the political economy of Africa.
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ISBN-13: 9781787387713
Published: 2 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 304

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