Full Description
This four-part multidisciplinary volume linearly engages with Zimbabwe's not too distant past and present socio-economic and political situation to 2017. It traces, explores, and analyzes the proceedings and internal mechanisms of the country's state of crisis via eclectic lens to primarily argue that, while during the colonial era some western governments were, and could indeed be implicated and held complicit for the negative developments in the country, post-independence, particularly from 1997 to 2017, Zimbabweans must objectively, individually and collectively introspect and take responsibility for some of the crisis. Part 2 consequently examines and paradoxically, both commends and condemns the agency of both the then Mugabe-led government and those Zimbabweans who refused to be victims and devised strategies to survive the crisis, albeit, at times, by victimizing others. Part 3 scrutinizes the highs and lows of the crisis by focusing on some of the prominent personalities of the crisis period covered. It premises that as a result of the November intervention by the military, the crisis had by 2017 reached a watershed, one that could either abate or exacerbate the crisis after Zimbabwe's elections in 2018. Despite the uncertainty which lay ahead, Part 4 audaciously and optimistically, proffers and charts prospective paths and possibilities which are open to the country as it faces the future.
Contents
List of Figures - List of Tables - Preface - List of Contributors - C. Luthuli Mhlahlo : Introduction - PART 1: CAUSING CRISIS - C. Luthuli Mhlahlo: Nehanda's Order and the Existentialist Transcendence of Despair - Lere Amusan: The Globalization of Domestic Politics in Zimbabwe: 1999-2009 - Dennis Masaka : Zimbabwe's Paternalistic Command Economy and the Crisis - Levar Lamar Smith: Herrera (2005) and the Role of Imagined Economies in State-Controlled Zimbabwe - PART 2: SURVIVING CRISIS - Samson R. Mhlahlo: Zimbabwe's Housing Shortage: Murambatsvina and Small-scale Landlordism - C. Luthuli Mhlahlo: The Zulu Mask: Surviving "Xenophobia" in "Post-Apartheid" South Africa - Lere Amusan : Survival by Reciprocity: Zimbabwe's Defensive Foreign Policy (2000-2009) - Fortune Sibanda/Dennis Masaka: A 'Marriage of (In)Convenience': The Government of National Unity (2009-2013) - PART 3: CRISIS WATERSHED—RETREAT OR SURRENDER - C. Luthuli Mhlahlo : "Killing Zimbabwe Softly, Slowly and Quickly": How Factionalism and Financial Liquidity Fueled the Crisis to a Watershed - C. Luthuli Mhlahlo : ZForwards from Zimbabwe (2007-2009): Email as Sociological Imagination and Satire - C. Luthuli Mhlahlo: From Grace to Disgrace: The Paradoxical Role of Women, Africanization, Age and African Modernity in the Rise and Demise of R.G. Mugabe - C. Luthuli Mhlahlo: Operation Restore Legacy: The Coup d'état That Was but Was Not - PART 4: BEYOND CRISIS: WALKING AND WORKING AWAY FROM A PARIAH STATUS - Munamato Chemhuru: Non-party Consensual Democracy: An Alternative to "democrazy" for Zimbabwe and Africa - C. Luthuli Mhlahlo: Beyond Mugabe: The Pursuit of National Healing and Government Relations - Dennis Masaka: Virtue Ethics as a Panacea to Zimbabwe's Business Malpractices - C. Luthuli Mhlahlo: Conclusion.
