1st Edition

Remembering Colonialism in Zimbabwe

Edited By Ivan Marowa, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani Copyright 2024
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the various ways in which colonialism in Zimbabwe is remembered, looking both at how people analyse, perceive, and interpret the past, and how they rewrite that past, elevating some players and their historical agency. Inspired by the ongoing movement on decoloniality, this book examines the ways in which generations of today question and challenge colonialism’s legacies and... Read more

1. Introduction: Remembering Colonialism in Zimbabwe

Ivan Marowa and Ushehwedu Kufakurinani

 

2. ‘We Cannot Run Away from Our Shadow’: Memories of Colonialism in Zimbabwe, 2000-2018

Ivan Marowa

 

3. Discursive entanglement? Concealed discourses of colonial memory in President Mnangagwa’s Heroes’ Acre speeches

Jairos Kudakwashe Bhowa and Noah Kupeta

 

4. ‘The Past haunting the Present’: State Machinery and reuse of Colonial Legislations in Zimbabwe’s Political Transitioning

Nicholas Govo, Benice Farai Nkomo and Owen Mangiza

 

5. Culture and Dressing in Zimbabwe: When Zimbabwe’s Colonial Dress Culture is African

Fananidzo Muchemwa

 

6. Toponymy, Power, and Colonial Urban Legacies: The Case of Harare, Zimbabwe

Zvinashe Mamvura and Ivan Marowa

 

7. Remembering Droughts and Irrigation: Government and Food Security in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1953

Bernard Kusena

 

8. The Church, Missionaries, and the Construction of Black Masculinities in Eastern Zimbabwe, in the first half of the 20th Century

Adrian Magaya

 

9. AmaDinga alahlelwa emaguswini: BaKalanga Narratives on evictions from Matobo Hills, 1926-2000

Simon Bvurire

 

10. Feminist Housewives in a Colonial Space: National Housewives Register in Zimbabwe’s History, 1970s to 1980s

Precious Mutibvu and Ushehwedu Kufakurinani

Biography

Ivan Marowa is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems, University of Zimbabwe.

Ushehwedu Kufakurinani is a Research Fellow, School of History, University of St. Andrews, Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg and in the Department of History, Archaeology and Development Studies at Great Zimbabwe University.