Why read Zimbabwe?

Book cover of Zimbabwe: Struggles-within-the-Struggle

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This book is about the contradictions and infighting that occurred in the Zimbabwe liberation movement from 1957 to independence in 1980. The focus is on ZAPU, ZANU, FROLIZI, ANC/UANC, and the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front (ZPF), as well as the part played by the Frontline States in these contradictions. The book…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Zimbabwe as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

John Tilston

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For me, a white boy going up in Southern Africa, I was force-fed only one side of the story of the war of liberation in Zimbabwe.

This book, released 20 years after so-called Independence in 1980, delves deep into the other side. It is the inside story of the liberation movement from the mid-1950s onwards: the pressures, the leading characters, the brutality of an often tribally-based internal conflict. It examines the evidence around the untimely death of some of the movement’s leaders.

Much of what Sithole writes about is again being swept under the carpet because it does not fit…

From John's list on The best books to understand British history beyond cliche, ideology, and spin.