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The army and politics in Zimbabwe : Mujuru, the liberation fighter and kingmaker
- Title
- The army and politics in Zimbabwe : Mujuru, the liberation fighter and kingmaker / Blessing-Miles Tendi, University of Oxford.
- Author
- Tendi, Blessing-Miles, 1979-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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Details
- Description
- x, 339 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Exploiting previously unexplored oral and archival sources, this biography centres on the life of General Solomon Tapfumaneyi Mujuru. Solomon is one of the most illustrious figures in modern Zimbabwean military and political history and in the transnational politics of Southern Africa's 1970s liberation struggles. He is, arguably, the greatest of all guerrilla field commanders from Zimbabwe's independence war against Rhodesian white-settler colonial rule. In the late 1970s, under the nom de guerre Rex Nhongo, Solomon reached the acme of his public acclaim, among black Africans, as a principal liberation fighter"--
- Alternative Title
- Mujuru, the liberation fighter and kingmaker
- Subject
- Mujuru, Solomon, 1945-2011
- Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army > Biography
- ZANU-PF (Organization : Zimbabwe) > Biography
- Zimbabwe. National Army > Officers > Biography
- ZANU-PF (Organization : Zimbabwe)
- Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army
- Zimbabwe. National Army
- 1966-1980
- Generals > Zimbabwe > Biography
- National liberation movements > Zimbabwe
- Armed Forces > Officers
- Generals
- National liberation movements
- Politics and government
- Zimbabwe > History > Chimurenga War, 1966-1980
- Zimbabwe > Politics and government
- Zimbabwe > History, Military
- Zimbabwe > Biography
- Zimbabwe
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Military history.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Preamble -- FIreborn 1 -- Ghost of chitepo -- Kingmaker -- The longest time -- 'We are free . . . We are here' -- 'A big small man' -- Gods of violence -- Fortune, love and politics -- Fireborn 2 -- Notes -- Index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-1251
- ISBN
- 9781108472890
- 1108472893
- LCCN
- 2019038379
- OCLC
- 1125274751
- Author
- Tendi, Blessing-Miles, 1979- author.
- Title
- The army and politics in Zimbabwe : Mujuru, the liberation fighter and kingmaker / Blessing-Miles Tendi, University of Oxford.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1966-1980
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Tendi, Miles, 1979- The army and politics in Zimbabwe Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019. 9781108561600 (DLC) 2019038380
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-1251