TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
PY  - 2012
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-1212
SN  - 9783035302530
TI  - Do ‘Zimbabweans’ Exist?
T2  - Trajectories of Nationalism, National Identity Formation and Crisis in a Postcolonial State
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0253-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043863
N2  - This book examines the triumphs and tribulations of the Zimbabwean national project, providing a radical and critical analysis of the fossilisation of Zimbabwean nationalism against the wider context of African nationalism in general. The book departs radically from the common ‘praise-texts’ in seriously engaging with the darker aspects of nationalism, including its failure to create the nation-as-people, and to install democracy and a culture of human rights. The author examines how the various people inhabiting the lands between the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers entered history and how violence became a central aspect of the national project of organising Zimbabweans into a collectivity in pursuit of a political end.
KW  - Ethnicity, pan-Africanism, Citizenship, Mugabe-ism
LA  - English
ER  -