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Challenge to Imperialism - The Frontline States in the Liberation of Zimbabwe (Hardcover)
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Challenge to Imperialism - The Frontline States in the Liberation of Zimbabwe (Hardcover)
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Challenge to Imperialism is the first comprehensive analysis of the
Zimbabwean struggle for independence in its international context.
Based on extensive research in the southern African region and on
interviews with the ZANU and ZAPU leaders in exile during the war,
this study is an analysis of the crucial support given to the
Zimbabwean nationalists by the five Frontline States-Angola,
Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. The book begins with a
summary of the variable relations among the Frontline States and
between those states and the Zimbabwean nationalists. More than
once, Frontline governments put Zimbabwean nationalists in their
own jails as tensions arose over leadership, conduct of the war,
and terms for peace. Yet the Frontline States maintained their
support in spite of the extremely high cost to their own economic
development. How could these weak and economically dependent states
confront the dominant interests in the region? Was Lancaster House
simply a capitulation to imperialist interests, a constitution
forced on the nationalists by the beleaguered Frontline States?
This theoretical analysis addresses the complexity of these
questions and suggests lessons for the current struggles in Namibia
and in South Africa. Further, Dr. Thompson discusses the formation
of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC)
as an attempt to transform the Zimbabwean political victory into
regional economic cooperation. This study of the political and
economic background of Zimbabwean independence is important not
only to those concerned about Zimbabwe and southern Africa, but
also to those interested in the nature of liberation struggles and
in the role of the state in developing countries.
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