Overcoming the Oppressors traces southern Africa's long walk to
freedom, the overturning of colonial rule in the northern
territories, and the dissolution of backs-to-the-wall white settler
suzerainty, first in what became Zimbabwe and then in South Africa.
Chapters on the individual countries detail the stages along their
sometimes complicated and tortuous struggle to attain the political
New Zion. Rotberg explains how and why the Federation of Rhodesia
and Nyasaland failed, how and why apartheid eventually collapsed,
and exactly how the various components of this heavily white
conquered, and later white oppressed, domain transitioned via
diverse fits and starts into today's assemblage of proud,
politically charged, and still mostly fragmented nation-states. But
what did the new republics make of their hard-won freedoms? Having
liberated themselves successfully, several soon dismantled
democratic safeguards, established effective single-party states,
closed their economies, deprived citizens of human rights and civil
liberties, and exchanged economic progress for varieties of central
planning experiments and stunted forms of protected economic
endeavors. Only Botswana, of the new entities, embraced full
democracy and good governance. The others, even South Africa, at
first tightly regimented their economies and attempted to severely
limit the degrees of economic freedom and social progress that
citizens could enjoy. Corruption prevailed everywhere except
Botswana. Today, as the chapters on contemporary southern Africa
reveal, most of the southern half of the African continent is
returning, if sometimes struggling, to the patterns of probity and
good governance that many countries abandoned in the decades after
independence.
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