Mugabe s Legacy Coups Conspiracies and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe 1st Edition by David B Moore ISBN 1787387712 978-1787387713

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ISBN 10: 1787387712 

ISBN 13: 978-1787387713

Author: David B Moore

Zimbabwe’s party-internal ‘coup’ of 2017, and deposed president Robert Mugabe’s death nearly two years later, demand careful, historically nuanced explanation. How did Mugabe gain and retain power over party and state for four decades? Did the suspected and nearly real ‘coups’, the conspiracies behind them, and their concurrent mythomaniacal conceits ultimately, ironically, spell his near-tragic end? Has Mugabe’s particular mode of power reached a finality with his own downfall, as his successors struggle more to balance Zimbabwe’s political contradictions? Will the phalanxes arrayed against Mugabe’s control fray further, as Zimbabwe fades?

Mugabe’s Legacy delves deeply into such questions, drawing on more than forty years of archival and interview-based research on Zimbabwe’s political history and current precariousness. Starting with the mid-1970s, it traces how Machiavellian moves allowed Mugabe to reach the apex of the Zimbabwe African National Union’s already slippery slopes, through the complexities of Cold War, regional, ideological, generational, inter- and intra-party tensions. The lessons learned by the president and the nascent ruling party then turned gradually inward, ultimately arriving at a near-collapse that may now pervade all of the country’s political space. David B. Moore vividly charts this rise and fall, all the way to Zimbabwe’s tenuous chaos today.

Table of contents: 

1 Introducing interpretations: ‘men’ becoming history; events becoming structures 1

2 Mugabe’s ends 27

3 Knowing Mugabe 45

4 Vashandi: the outside view 61

5 Inside vashandi-then out 75

6 Cockroaches, kids and counting down: 1980-2000 101

7 Rumours of coups: 2000-7 127

8 From conspiracies to the real coup’s cusp: 2007-17 145

9 The coup incarnate: 14-21 November 2017 159

10 From coup to Covid: lumpen leaders and really morbid symptoms 185

Epilogue: On the Occasion of a Harare Book Launch 201

Notes 209

References 259

Index 277

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