ACAS Bulletin 80: Special Issue on the Zimbabwe Crisis - Two
By ACAS | 12 November 2008
Today the Association of Concerned African Scholars (ACAS) is proud to publish a new series of timely essays tackling the ongoing political crisis in Zimbabwe.
Edited by Timothy Scarnecchia and Wendy Urban-Mead, the ten analyses presented here delve deep behind the headlines to expose the deeper realities of this protracted issue.
‘Our last Special Issue on the Zimbabwe Elections* came out two weeks before the June 27th run-off presidential election. This was before opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC announced his decision not to contest the run-off election because of the extreme violence used against the MDC candidates, supporters, and alleged supporters,’ writes Scarnecchia and Urban-Mead.
‘This issue of the ACAS bulletin is concerned with the aftermath of the elections of 2008, offering analysis of the outcome of the parliamentary election results of the March elections, the ways in which the political violence during May and June have fundamentally altered the possibility of a non-violent political dispensation in Zimbabwe, and, perhaps of most current interest for readers, the unfolding of “power sharing” negotiations that began with the September 11, 2008 signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Mugabe’s ZANU(PF), Tsvangirai’s MDC-T, and a smaller splinter group led by Arthur Mutambara, (the MDC-M).’
ACAS Bulletin N°80 - Winter 2008
Special Issue on Zimbabwe (II)
Table of Contents
Introduction: Special Issue on Zimbabwe 2
Tim Scarnecchia (Kent State University)
Wendy Urban-Mead (Bard College)
A Tale of Two Elections: Zimbabwe at the Polls in 2008
Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford)
Blessing-Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Waiting for Power-sharing: A False Promise?
Norma Kriger (University of KwaZulu/Natal)
The Glass Fortress: Zimbabwe’s Cyber-Guerrilla Warfare
Clapperton Mavhunga (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Reflections on Displacement in Zimbabwe
Amanda Hammar (Nordic Africa Institute)
Zimbabweans Living in the South African Border-Zone: Negotiating, Suffering, and Surviving
Blair Rutherford (Carleton University)
Anti-Imperialism and Schizophrenic revolutionaries in Zimbabwe
Tamuka Chirimambowa
The Zimbabwean Working Peoples: Between a Political Rock and an Economic Hard Place
Horace G. Campbell (Syracuse University)
Zimbabwe: Failing Better?
David Moore (University of Johannesburg)
Review: Heidi Holland’s Dinner with Mugabe
Sean Jacobs (University of Michigan)
Editorial: In the Shadow of Gukurahundi
Timothy Scarnecchia (Kent State University)