%0 Book
%A Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
%D 2012
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1662-1212
%@ 9783035302530
%T Do ‘Zimbabweans’ Exist?
%B Trajectories of Nationalism, National Identity Formation and Crisis in a Postcolonial State
%R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0253-0
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043863
%X 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.
%K Ethnicity, pan-Africanism, Citizenship, Mugabe-ism
%G English