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Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe

Politics, Power, and Memory

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Editors:
  1. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

    1. Archie Mafeje Research Institute, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

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  • Presents the first academic study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo’s life and legacy
  • Utilizes a rich interdisciplinary approach, examining Nkomo’s life from historical, literary, cultural, political, and philosophical angles
  • Argues for Nkomo’s role in Zimbabwean and postcolonial African history as a philosopher of liberation and decolonial humanist
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction: Writing Joshua Nkomo into History and Narration of the Nation

    • Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
    Pages 1-45

  5. Nation-Building, Persecution, Autobiography and Rehabilitation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-297
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    2. Joshua Nkomo and Nelson Mandela: Ideas of Nation and Liberation

      • Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Busani Mpofu
      Pages 299-322

    3. Reconstructing the Self: Hauntology and Spectrality in Nkomo’s Autobiography

      • Josiah Nyanda
      Pages 323-340

    4. Self-Writing and Subjection: Frederick Douglas and Joshua Nkomo

      • Tendayi Sithole
      Pages 341-372

    5. Father Zimbabwe: Media, Memory and Joshua Nkomo

      • Sylvester Dombo
      Pages 373-387
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About this book

This book is a pioneering study of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, a Zimbabwean nationalist whose crucial role in the country’s anti-colonial struggle has largely gone unrecognized. These essays trace his early influence on Zimbabwean nationalism in the late 1950s and his leadership in the armed liberation movement and postcolonial national-building processes, as well as his denigration by the winners of the 1980 elections, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. The Nkomo that emerges is complex and contested, the embodiment of Zimbabwe’s tortured trajectory from colony to independent postcolonial state. This is an essential corrective to the standard history of twentieth-century Zimbabwe, and an invaluable resource for scholars of African nationalist liberation movements and nation-building.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Archie Mafeje Research Institute, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

    Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

About the editor

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor at the University of South Africa. His recent publications include Mugabeism: History, Power and Politics in Zimbabwe (Palgrave Macmillan 2015).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe

  • Book Subtitle: Politics, Power, and Memory

  • Editors: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

  • Series Title: African Histories and Modernities

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60555-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60554-8Published: 06 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86887-5Published: 11 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60555-5Published: 17 August 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5773

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 454

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: African History, African Politics, African Culture, International Relations, Political Leadership

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