Mugabeism?: History, Politics, and Power in Zimbabwe

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Mugabeism and Entanglements of History, Politics, and Power in the Making of Zimbabwe....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Robert Mugabe: An Intellectual Manqué and His Moments of Meaning....Pages 29-44
Mugabe on Land, Indigenization, and Development....Pages 45-59
Mugabe’s Neo-sultanist Rule: Beyond the Veil of Pan-Africanism....Pages 61-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Intransigent Diplomat: Robert Mugabe and His Western Diplomacy, 1963–1983....Pages 77-91
Sheriff in the “Club of Dictators”?: Robert Mugabe’s Role in the Politics of Southern Africa, 1976–2013....Pages 93-106
In the Footsteps of Robert Gabriel Mugabe: Namibian Solidarity with Mugabe’s Populism—(Bogus) Anti-imperialism in Practice....Pages 107-120
Robert Mugabe: The Will to Power and Crisis of the Paradigm of War....Pages 121-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Mugabe the Man-Nation: Two Views of Culture in the Construction of Masculinities in Zimbabwe....Pages 137-156
Grappling with Mugabe’s Masculinist Politics in Zimbabwe: A Gender Perspective....Pages 157-179
Corruption and the Comrades: Mugabe and the “Fight” against Corruption in Zimbabwe, 1980–2013....Pages 181-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Mugabe’s Land Reform and the Provocation of Global White Antiblack Racism....Pages 203-216
A Fanonian Reading of Robert Gabriel Mugabe as Colonial Subject....Pages 217-236
African Leadership in the Age of Euro-North American-Centric Modernity: A Decolonial Critique of Robert Mugabe....Pages 237-248
Mugabe and the Military Alliance: Zimbabwe’s Prospects of Democratic Transition....Pages 249-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-319