Almost every anti-colonial struggle this century has been led by an
army of guerrillas. No such struggle has succeeded without a very
high degree of cooperation between guerrillas and the local
peasantry. But what does 'cooperation' between peasants and
guerrillas really consist of? What effect does it have on the way
they view the world for which they fight? In the struggle for
Zimbabwe (1966-80), hundreds of thousands of peasants provided the
guerrillas with practical help and support. But they went a good
deal further. Throughout the country scores of spirit mediums, the
religious leaders of Shona, gave active support to resistance. With
their participation, the scale of the war expanded into an
astonishing act of collaboration between ancestors and their
descendants, the past and the present, the living and the dead.
This book is a detailed study of one key 'operational zone' in the
Zambezi valley. It shows that to understand the meaning the war and
independence have for the people of Zimbabwe themselves, we must
take into account not only the nationalist guerrillas and
politicians, the bearers of guns, but also the mediums of the
spirits of the Shona royal ancestors, the bringers of rain.
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