New Book from the Nordic Africa Institute:
Palmberg , Mai and Ranka Primorac (Eds): Skinning the Skunk – Facing Zimbabwean Futures
Discussion Papers 30
Pages: 40 pp Published: September 2005
ISBN: 91-7106-552-0 ISSN: 1104-8417 Price: 90 SEK/ 7,95 GBP/ 9 EURO
Paperback, Size: 165 x 240 mm
Keywords:
National identity, history, cultural identity, political development, social development, future studies, diaspora, Zimbabwe
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www.nai.uu.se/publ/publeng.html
Description
SKINNING THE SKUNK refers to a saying in Shona, kuvhiya kadembo. The Zimbabwean writer Stanley Nyamfukudza uses it here to illustrate how important problems, like the legacy of violence, are avoided in Zimbabwean public discussion.
Terence Ranger writes on the new policy of rewriting the history of Zimbabwe, in the name of “patriotic history”, through which the Zanu-PF government tries to assert hegemony and achieve “a total change of the mindset”.
To talk about Zimbabwe today also means to talk of the large diaspora. Beacon Mbiba presents a study on what is colloquially called “Harare North”, that is London (and the rest of the UK).
Mai Palmberg is a political scientist from Finland, and works at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. She is coordinator of a research and network project “Cultural Images in and of Africa” and has conducted and edited interviews for “The State of the Arts in Zimbabwe. Some Notes from 2002-2004”.
Ranka Primorac has degrees from the Universities of Zagreb, Harare and Nottingham Trent. She is the author of The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe (I.B. Tauris, London, forthcoming [2006]) and co-editor (with Robert Muponde) of Versions of Zimbabwe: New Approaches to Literature and Culture (Weaver Press, Harare, 2005). She teaches at the Africana Studies Department of New York University (NYU) in London.
Contents
Terence Ranger
The Uses and Abuses of History in Zimbabwe
Stanley Nyamfukudza
To Skin a Skunk: Some observations on Zimbabwes intellectual development
Beacon Mbiba
“Zimbabwes global citizens in Harare North: Some observations”
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