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Free Download The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe by Dervla Murphy
English | October 30, 2016 | ISBN: 1780601190 | True EPUB | 206 pages | 0.9 MB
Allowing herself several months to unwind, Dervla Murphy, at sixty, set off on a three-thousand-mile bike ride from Kenya to Zimbabwe via Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. She soon realized that, for travellers in search of tranquillity, Africa is best avoided. Beguiled by the loquacious people she met, she was nevertheless preoccupied by their immense hardships: the devastating effects of AIDS (or ukimwi as it’s called in Swahili); drought and economic collapse; scepticism about Western aid schemes; and corruption and incompetence.

Free Download Norma Kriger, Brian Raftopoulos, David Moore, "’Progress’ in Zimbabwe?: The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1138382973, 0415594650 | EPUB | pages: 168 | 0.5 mb
Zimbabwe’s severe crisis – and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground – demands a coherent scholarly response. ‘Progress’ can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe’s societal devastation. At wider levels too, the concept of progress is fitting. It underpins ‘modern’, ‘liberal’ and ‘radical’ perspectives of development pervading the social sciences and humanities. Yet perceptions of ‘progress’ are subject increasingly to intensive critical inquiry. Their gruesome end is signified in the political projects of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF. John Gray’s Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia indicates this.

Free Download Joseph Chikowero, "The Art of Survival: Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in Crisis"
English | ISBN: 1443881090 | 2015 | 240 pages | PDF | 818 KB
The Art of Survival: Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean in Crisis offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, one epitomized by the severe shortages and runaway inflation of 2008. While journalistic stories of the 1998-2008 era often privilege the reductive stories of woe, defeat and crushed hopes, this volume explores how survival was still possible in those circumstances. The book offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies, how they weaved new songs and reinterpreted old ones to fight for survival, how social institutions such as churches reinterpreted popular gospel, and how authors, playwrights and dramatists crafted works that acknowledge the unprecedented difficulties and yet find humour, laughter and love in unusual places. This work will appeal to both scholars, who will appreciate the depth of the analysis, and the general reader.

Free Download Langtone Maunganidze, "Representation and Materialization of Architecture and Space in Zimbabwe: Between National Icons and Dispositifs"
English | ISBN: 303147760X | 2024 | 170 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This volume is an empirical study examining the extent to which historic and iconic architecture and spaces in Zimbabwe – particularly in urban areas – have been mobilized to construct and reconstruct identities. The author explores the question of traditional and political architecture through analysis of a variety of structures, including monuments, museums, and indigenous and state buildings. Special attention is paid to the soapstone-carved Zimbabwe Bird, which for years has served as the national emblem. Overall, this book argues that while the production and use of architectural products and spaces have been regarded symbols of collective identity, they have also served as expressions of power and control.

Free Download Zenzo Moyo, "Civil Society and the Party-state in Zimbabwe: Democracy, Hegemonies and Polarities"
English | ISBN: 9819752531 | 2024 | 324 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 6 MB
The book utilises Gramsci’s concepts of hegemony, counter-hegemony, organic intellectuals, and integral state to interrogate how modes of engagement between the state and civil society have contributed to a polarised polity in Zimbabwe, and in turn how this has impacted democratisation processes. This was achieved by analysing intra-civil society interactions and state-civil society relations, which established deep polarised relationships that can be traced back to the liberation struggle. It also interrogates ideologies that drive these polarised relations, and how, together with material benefits from donors and the party-state, these relations impact ordinary people’s modes of existence. One of the arguments that emerge from the book is that political polarisation in Zimbabwe has now morphed into an established political culture that has played a huge role in the retardation of democratic struggles. It uses ideas of entangled modernities and travelling theory to cast doubt on the belief that civil society is the ‘missing key’ in the democratisation of developing countries.

Free Download Molly Manyonganise, "Women, Religion and Leadership in Zimbabwe, Volume 1: An Ecofeminist Perspective "
English | ISBN: 3031245784 | 2023 | 204 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Zimbabwe has invested in women’s emancipation and leadership while articulating a strong Pan-Africanist ideology, providing a valuable entry point into understanding the dynamics relating to women’s leadership in Africa. It is also characterised by radical religious pluralism, thereby facilitating an appreciation of the impact of religion on women’s leadership in Africa more generally.

Free Download Esther Mavengano, "Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe, Vol II: The 2023 Election and Beyond"
English | ISBN: 3031337956 | 2023 | 458 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Volume two of Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe: The 2023 Election and Beyond argues that research into Zimbabwe’s politics is multifaceted and topical, particularly because for more than two decades now, this Southern African state has been dogged by multiple problems including hyperinflation, drought, escalating poverty levels, extremely high unemployment rates and political instabilities. The volume’s overall goal is to ignite intellectual discussions and practical action towards turning the political wheels that have been in place for decades. The first segment examines the interface between gender and electoral politics in Zimbabwe. The second part discusses the role of the media in Zimbabwe’s electoral politics. The third section reflects on the role of traditional leaders and religious discourses in Zimbabwe’s electoral politics. The book will be a key resource to colleges, universities and organisations in Zimbabwe, the Southern Africa region andeven beyond.

Free Download A Mission Divided : The Jesuit Presence in Zimbabwe, 1879-2021
by David Harold-Barry
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1779224117 | 418 Pages | True PDF | 53 MB

Free Download Professor Joost Fontein, "The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000-2020: Bones, Rumours & Spirits"
English | ISBN: 1847012671 | 2022 | 366 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 12 MB

Free Download Victor Muchineripi Gwande, "Manufacturing in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1979: Interest Group Politics, Protectionism & the State"
English | ISBN: 1847013333 | 2022 | 252 pages | EPUB, PDF | 11 MB + 9 MB