The Department of Political Sciences invites you to a book launch and seminar on the topic 'Mugabeism?' History, Politics and Power in Zimbabwe, to be presented by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Henning Melber, Alois Mlambo, David Moore and Busani Mpofu on 20 October.

President Robert Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe is an enigmatic figure who has been in power for 35 years. He has both admirers and critics. Mugabeism? History, Politics and Power in Zimbabwe, edited by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Palgrave Macmillan (2015), is the first to investigate the meaning of Mugabe from an interdisciplinary vantage point. It poses the difficult question of what 'Mugabeism' means. What emerges is Mugabe as colonial, nationalist, and postcolonial subject manifesting complex ambivalences, ambiguities, and contradictions. Mugabe is at once a liberator, Machiavellian dictator, champion of socio-economic justice, patriarch, pan-Africanist, anti-democrat, and an anti-imperialist revolutionary; a progenitor and undertaker of Zimbabwe; popular and unpopular. These meanings of Mugabe are explored in this book.

The editor and several authors will share their insights and views on such meaning(s) of Mugabeism.

For further information on the book, click here.

Date:Tuesday 20 October
Venue: L1-70, Postgraduate Centre (see Building 52 on attached map)
Time: 14:00 to 16:00