Zimbabwe Books


Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Best Price: $2.87 In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller describes her childhood in Africa....	When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa Best Price: $11.79 Peter Godwin was born in Rhodesia, and in 1996 he published 'Makiwa', a gripping account of how...	Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's Future Best Price: $7.96 For anyone interested in beginning to understand the dynamics of Zimbabwe's recent electoral...	Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm Best Price: $8.99 Growing up in 1960s Rhodesia, Lauren St. John thought she was in paradise. Despite the...	Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier Best Price: $1.50 I liked this as a follow up to her original! It was very informative of how african soldiers...



Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe Best Price: $8.22 Andrew Meldrum was the last foreign journalist thrown out of Zimbabwe and, after spending 23...	House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe Best Price: $15.65 This is a controversial book where the writers' bias comes through in several places as a given...	James and the Duck: Tales of the Rhodesian Bush War (1964 - 1980) Best Price: $13.94 I bought this book thinking I'd get an action packed book full of gunfights, death and combat. ...	Rhodesian Ridgeback (Pet Love) Best Price: $17.71 'Funny thing about Rhodesian Ridgeback books. It's hard to tell the reader something he doesn't...	Guns and Rain: Guerrillas & Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe Best Price: $19.95 As a son of Zimbabwe I would dare say herein lies many of the clues,explanations and answers to...



What Happens After Mugabe? Best Price: $11.24 I lived in beautiful Zimbabwe for 4 years in the 80s-90s, I didn't want to leave I loved it so...	Rhodesians Never Die (State and Democracy Series) Best Price: $35.55 This book piece by piece debunks the myrhs surounding the Rhodesian war and sociaty. Itshould be...	Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa Best Price: $4.02 "Late Sunday afternoons, when our father eventually arrived to pick us up I usually felt as...	Against The Grain Best Price: $22.27 Geoffrey Nyarota is an unbelievably experienced man. His stories bring shivers down your back...	Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War Best Price: $22.45 Very good and very well written. Much better detail than Fireforce but not so romantic as Cocks...

Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa Best Price: $26.22 While traveling on an overland safari, I ran out of books to read. (Although I brought plenty,...	Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) Best Price: $27.96 This book deservedly stands as the most comprehensive treatment of Zimbabwean popular music in...	Through the Darkness: A Life in Zimbabwe Best Price: $17.56 I came away with a profound sense of admiration for Judith Todd and her brave, painstaking...	A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church (The Anthropology of Christianity) Best Price: $20.88 The Friday Masowe apostolics of Zimbabwe refer to themselves as "the Christians who don't...	A Crisis of Governance: Zimbabwe Best Price: $28.95 Even with intense interest and focus on Zimbabwe, few analyses have been able to penetrate to...

Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe Best Price: $17.01 Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting...	The Unsettled Land: State-making & the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe, 1893-2003 Best Price: $24.92 The Unsettled Land engages with the current debates on land and politics in Africa and provides...	The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe Best Price: $13.53 Excellent! An in depth study of the music and the traditions and culture that are the driving...	Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe (Body, Commodity, Text) Best Price: $17.00 How do people come to need products they never even knew they wanted? How, for example, did...	Journey To The Vanished City Best Price: $7.88 There is not a dull line in this book - I just got it after reading the author's Ark of the...

The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith Best Price: $54.95 I became interested in the history of Rhodesia back in November of 2007, when Ian Smith's death...	The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965 Best Price: $19.99 " . . . the most important book to date on the origins and activities of the African elite...	Moral Economy Of The State: Conservation, Community Development, & State-Making in Zimbabwe (Ohio RIS Africa Series) Best Price: $31.20 The Moral Economy of the State examines state formation in Zimbabwe from the colonial period...	The Bulawayo Cookery Book Best Price: $21.57 First published in 1909, Zimbabwe's earliest cookery book will entrance you with over 230...	FROM THE CAPE TO BULAWAYO (How to Travel to Rhodesia Through British Terrirtory, Limited Edition Series of 1000 copies.)

Pigment of Your Imagination: Mixed-Race Families in Great Britain, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Jamaica Joy M. Zarembka was "born, bred, and buttered" in Pittsburgh, PA, to a Kenyan mother...	Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe (Ohio RIS Africa Series) Best Price: $29.97 As a student of Sub-Saharan Africa I found this history of British Empire propaganda efforts...	Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: A Report on the Disturbances in Matebeleland and the Midlands, 1980-1988 (Columbia/Hurst) Best Price: $22.67 The name Robert Mugabe has become synonymous with failed leadership in Africa. One of the first...	Civil Wars in Africa: Roots and Resolution Best Price: $24.95 This a well written factual study of African civil wars. It clearly addresses the crisis without...	African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe Best Price: $5.98 I have never been in Africa and have never read any of the books about the continent except for...

Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940 Best Price: $15.00 Studying of the meanings of education, mission identities, and cultural change in Southern...	Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902 Best Price: $66.35	Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1935 Best Price: $23.43	The Uncertain Promise of Southern Africa Best Price: $16.34 Leading scholars analyze the economic, political, social, and cultural conditions in Southern...	Running After Pills: Politics, Gender, and Contraception in Colonial Zimbabwe (Social History of Africa Series) Best Price: $27.95 Modern contraception is normally associated with an increase in women's freedom. Sexually, it...

The Unwritten Text: The Indigenous African Christian Women's Movement in Zimbabwe Best Price: $11.98	Cry Zimbabwe Best Price: $34.05	Robert Mugabe and the Betrayal of Zimbabwe Best Price: $35.00 Instead of leading his people to the "promised land," Mugabe, the first prime minister...	Contemporary Stone Sculpture in Zimbabwe: Context, Content and Form *****Celia Winter-Irving writes that Zimbabwe's stone sculpture is unique, not only because of...	Pieces of Time: An Anthology of Articles on Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture Best Price: $32.95 This book brings together some seventy- five of the author's articles from The Herald and The...

The Rhetoric of Sir Garfield Todd: Christian Imagination and the Dream of an African Democracy (Studies in Rhetoric & Religion) Best Price: $20.03 This work assembles the best of Todd's (available) speeches and provides an analysis of their...	Famine in Zimbabwe, 1890-1960 (Zambeziana)	The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe Best Price: $14.81	Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the "Native Mind" in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930 (Social History of Africa) Best Price: $27.50 By the 1920s, linguistic and ethnographic projects to formalize the language and legal systems...	Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the "Native Mind" in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930 (Social History of Africa) Best Price: $27.50 By the 1920s, linguistic and ethnographic projects to formalize the language and legal systems...

Pamwe Chete This book should be standard issue to any candidate officer at both Sandhurst and West Point. ...	Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe Best Price: $4.99 The book is incredibly well researched, yet manages to keep it all organized and interesting. If...	Degrees in Violence Best Price: $17.50 The growing corpus of work on the contemporary history of Zimbabwe is welcome. The only...	Re-Living the Second Chimurenga: Memories from Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle Best Price: $34.65 Fay Chung was born into a middle class family of business owners of Chinese origin in the then...	CONTACT 2 Documentary of the war in Rhodesia in the 1970's. Reprint version of the classic.

Chimurenga!: The war in Rhodesia : a military history Best Price: $44.95 The books covers the period from 1965 through to 1980. I can't say it's riveting but it's a good...	On the Frontline: Catholic Missions in Zimbabwe's Liberation War	Rhodesian Memories Best Price: $24.00 This book is a large one in that the page size is nearly A4 and would be the equivalent of over...	Violence ; Memory: One Hundred Years in the 'Dark Forests' of Matabeleland (Social History of Africa) Best Price: $92.00 In this important contribution to the historiography of Zimbabwe, the authors explore the...

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