Catastrophe: What Went Wrong in Zimbabwe? (2011)
Richard Bourne
No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, acclaimed writer Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in 1980, became a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy and abandonment by a third of its citizens less than 30 years later. Beginning with the British conquest of Zimbabwe and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, Catastrophe is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and readable account of the ongoing crisis. Bourne shows that Zimbabwe's tragedy is not just about Mugabe's "evil," but about history, Africa today, and the world's attitudes towards them.
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Година:
2011
Издание:
1
Издателство:
Zed Books
Език:
english
Страници:
322
ISBN 10:
1848135203
ISBN 13:
9781848135208
Файл:
PDF, 1.79 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011