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Africa After Aid

Landry Signé
Essay

War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

If America Were in Africa

Reuben E. Brigety II
Snapshot

History Repeats Itself in Zimbabwe

Tendai Biti
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People Power Is Rising in Africa

Zoe Marks, Erica Chenoweth, Jide Okeke
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What’s Driving the Crisis in Zimbabwe?

Stephen Chan
Snapshot

Robert Mugabe

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Zimbabwe’s Upcoming Election Is a Political Charade

Michelle Gavin, Todd Moss
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Can Zimbabwe Recover From Mugabe's Misrule?

John Rapley
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Mugabe’s Misrule

Martin Meredith
Essay

Why Zimbabwe’s Military Abandoned Mugabe

Philip Martin
Snapshot

Mugabe Is Gone, But Zimbabwe’s Dictatorship Will Remain

John Campbell
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Understanding Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Authoritarianism

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Why Zimbabwe’s Military Sticks With Mugabe

Philip Martin
Snapshot

Zimbabwe’s Dying Dictatorship

Michael Bratton, Eldred Masunungure
Snapshot

Two Steps Backwards For Zimbabwe

Jeffrey Smith, Todd Moss
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"Waffle, Vacillate, Fail"

Jonathan Tepperman

Zimbabwe’s Underhanded Autocrat

Michael Bratton
Snapshot

Mugabe Über Alles

Robert I. Rotberg
Comment

Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands, 1980-1988

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Constraints and Prospects

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Africa's Mess, Mugabe's Mayhem

Robert I. Rotberg
Essay

Politicians and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Managing Arms in Peace Processes: Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Individual Freedoms and State Security in the African Context: The Case of Zimbabwe

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

State Politics In Zimbabwe

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

The Last Colony In Africa: Diplomacy And The Independence Of Rhodesia

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Mothers Of The Revolution

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Struggle for Southern Africa

Robert G. Mugabe
Essay

The United States and Africa: Victory for Diplomacy

Andrew Young
Essay

Zimbabwe, Southern Africa and the Rise of Robert Mugabe

Xan Smiley
Essay

Salvaging America's Rhodesian Policy

Richard H. Ullman
Essay

America and Southern Africa

Julius K. Nyerere
Essay

Southern Africa: A South African View

John Barratt
Essay

War in Southern Africa

Russell Warren Howe
Essay

The Forgotten Rhodesians

David R. Smock
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The Coalescing Problem of Southern Africa

Ernest A. Gross
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Rhodesia in the Context of Southern Africa

Julius K. Nyerere
Essay
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