A Predictable Tragedy : : Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe / / Daniel Compagnon.
When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he wou...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Authoritarian Control of the Political Arena
- Chapter 2. Violence as the Cornerstone of Mugabe's Strategy of Political Survival
- Chapter 3. Militant Civil Society and the Emergence of a Credible Opposition
- Chapter 4. The Media Battlefield: From Skirmishes to Full-Fledged War
- Chapter 5. The Judiciary: From Resistance to Subjugation
- Chapter 6. The Land ''Reform'' Charade and the Tragedy of Famine
- Chapter 7. The State Bourgeoisie and the Plunder of the Economy
- Chapter 8. The International Community and the Crisis in Zimbabwe
- Conclusion: Chaos Averted or Merely Postponed?
- List of Acronyms
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments