The urban roots of democracy and political violence in Zimbabwe : Harare and Highfield, 1940-1964 /

'The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe' details a democratic tradition developed in the 1940s and 1950s, and a movement that would fall victim to an increasingly elitist and divisive political culture by the 1960s. Providing biographical sketches of key personalit...

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Main Author: Scarnecchia, Timothy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2008.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Charles Mzingeli's leadership and imperial working-class citizenship
  • Township protest politics
  • Resistance to the Urban Areas Act and women's political influence
  • Changing tactics : youth league politics and the end of accommodation
  • The early sixties : violent protests and "sellout" politics
  • The "imperialist stooge" and new levels of "sellout" political violence
  • The ZAPU-ZANU split and the battlegrounds of Harare and Highfield.