Zimbabwe: The terrain of contradictory development (Profiles)

One of the most distinctive countries in Southern Africa, Zimbabwe presents a fascinating study in contradictions. This book addresses these contraditions, focusing on disjointed trends as continuities and discontinuities with historical patterns of political economy. The author traces the historical antecedents - the precolonial patterns of political economy, the political economy of white settler colonialism, and the class-political conflicts - of contradictory development. In her exploration of the post-independence state and society can be found both the outlines of a country that continues to move in several directions at once and the prospects for a less contradictory future for Zimbabwe.