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For a number of scholars, Mahmood Mamdani’s ‘Lessons of Zimbabwe’ requires a further response, given Mamdani’s stature as a scholar and public intellectual (LRB, 4 December 2008). Some aspects of his argument are uncontroversial: there was a real demand for land redistribution – even the World Bank was calling for it in the late 1990s as the best way forward in Zimbabwe – and some of the Western powers’ original pronouncements and actions were hypocritical. There is a real danger, however, in simplifying the lessons of Zimbabwe. It isn’t just a matter of stark ethnic dichotomies, the urban-rural divide, or the part played by ‘the West’.
One of the more difficult tasks for scholars working on Zimbabwe is to convince peers working on other areas of Africa to look more deeply at the crisis and not to be fooled by Mugabe’s rhetoric of imperialist victimisation. Mamdani has, unfortunately, fallen in with this rhetoric by characterising Zimbabwean history and politics as fundamentally a battle between what he sees as an urban-based opposition, supported by the West, and a peasant-based ruling party besieged by external forces. This flight of fantasy portrays Mugabe and his Zanu-PF cronies as heroes of a la
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Blessing-Miles Tendi
Topic: “Zimbabwe’s men of ideas: irresponsibility and its implications for society” Blessing-Miles Tendi (D.Phil) is a Zimbabwean Lecturer in African politics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of “Making History in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe: Politics, Intellectuals and the Media”. Tendi’s research is principally focused on intellectuals, society and power; military history; and biographical studies. He has subsidiary interests in genocide studies; counterfactuals in historical explanation; and power-sharing in Africa. Tendi is also a regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper (UK).
Chris Kabwato
Topic: “I don’t want my children to be like me – and here is why…” Chris Kabwato is a social entrepreneur and his several projects include the Centre for Public Accountability and Zimbabwe in Pictures Trust (www.zimbabweinpictures.com). He is a columnist for NewsDay (www.newsday.co.zw), one of Zimbabwe’s foremost daily newspapers. His background is in the arts and he has previously worked for the British Council as Head of Education and Public Affairs and as Director of Southern Africa Communications for Development (SACOD). His main interests are in new media (mobile, internet, and social media) and photography and how they can be deployed in storytellin