Re-living the Second Chimurenga: Memories from the Liberation Struggle in ZimbabweIn her memoirs, Fay Chung presents her first-hand experience of the Zimbabwean liberation struggle and the reforms of the country's educational system, which followed. She gives her personal interpretation of Zimbabwe's trajectory over thirty years from a nationalist uprising, through the promises of the first independent government, to the turmoil of land invasions, new democratic challenges, and political violence. Chung 's memoirs--in many ways controversial--offer a valuable and thought-provoking introduction to modern Zimbabwean history and burning issues in the contemporary politics of Southern Africa. The memoir will be of great interest, not only to students and researchers, but also to a wider group of readers concerned with politics and development in Africa and with the Zimbabwean experiment in social transformation from the 1970s to the present. This edition of Fay Chung 's memoirs has an introduction by Preben Kaarsholm--an experienced Danish Zimbabwe scholar--that situates her narrative and reflections in the context of debates around Zimbabwe's modern history and current political and economical crisis. |
Contents
Memoirs of a Dutiful Revolutionary | 7 |
CHAPTER 1 Growing up in Colonial Rhodesia | 27 |
CHAPTER 2 An Undergraduate in the 60s | 39 |
CHAPTER 3 Teaching in the Turmoil of the Townships | 46 |
CHAPTER 4 In Exile in Britain | 65 |
CHAPTER 5 Learning from the Zambia of the 1970s | 71 |
CHAPTER 6 Joining the Liberation Struggle in Zambia | 75 |
Commander of ZANLA | 124 |
CHAPTER 13 Traditional Religion in the Liberation Struggle | 197 |
CHAPTER 14 The Formation of the ZANU Department of Education | 203 |
CHAPTER 15 The Internal Settlement and Intensified Armed Struggle | 229 |
CHAPTER 16 The Lancaster House Agreement | 242 |
CHAPTER 17 Prelude to Independence | 248 |
CHAPTER 18 The Fruits of Independence | 254 |
CHAPTER 19 A Vision of Zimbabwe Tomorrow | 327 |
APPENDIX 1 The Mgagao Declarationby Zimbabwe Freedom Fighters October 1975 | 340 |
Nyadzonia and Chimoio | 140 |
CHAPTER 9 The Formation of the Zimbabwe Peoples Army ZIPA 1976 | 145 |
Old Enemies and New Friends | 153 |
CHAPTER 11 PostDétente and the Defeat of the ZANU Left Wing | 171 |
CHAPTER 12 I End Up in a Military Camp | 189 |
APPENDIX 2 Curriculum Vitae FAY CHUNG | 347 |
Acronyms | 351 |
Back cover | 353 |
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