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Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe,
spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary
General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan
Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical
process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history of a
nation-in-the-making should not be reduced to a selective heroic
tradition, but should be a tolerant and continuing process of
questioning and re-examination.' Becoming Zimbabwe tracks the idea
of national belonging and citizenship and explores the nature of
state rule, the changing contours of the political economy, and the
regional and international dimensions of the country's history. In
their Introduction, Brian Raftopoulos and Alois Mlambo enlarge on
these themes, and Gerald Mazarire's opening chapter sets the
pre-colonial background. Sabelo Ndlovu tracks the history up to
WW11, and Alois Mlambo reviews developments in the settler economy
and the emergence of nationalism leading to UDI in 1965. The
politics and economics of the UDI period, and the subsequent war of
liberation, are covered by Joesph Mtisi, Munyaradzi Nyakudya and
Teresa Barnes. After independence in 1980, Zimbabwe enjoyed a
period of buoyancy and hope. James Muzondidya's chapter details the
transition 'from buoyancy to crisis', and Brian Raftopoulos
concludes the book with an analysis of the decade-long crisis and
the global political agreement which followed.
This work was conceived as a sequel to the African Writers Handbook
(African Books Collective, 1999). It is built on the debates
emanating from a seminar on scholarly publishing in Africa held in
Arusha, Tanzania in 2002, organised by the Dag Hammarskjld
Foundation, the African Books Collective and the International
Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP).
The seminar brought together scholars and publishers against a
background of evidence of a revival of interest in higher education
and scholarship in Africa after a long period of decline, and the
new departures in scholarly publishing afforded by technology. This
resulting collection of essays takes stock of the status of
scholarly and academic publishing on the continent in the early
years of the twenty-first century.
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