Prisoners of Rhodesia : inmates and detainees in the struggle for Zimbabwean liberation, 1960-1980

Prisoners of Rhodesia : inmates and detainees in the struggle for Zimbabwean liberation, 1960-1980 / by Munyaradzi B. Munochiveyi.

Between 1961 and 1979, African nationalists engaged in a protracted guerrilla war that ultimately ended white rule in colonial Rhodesia. During the conflict, the settler regime responded by imprisoning numerous activists and others it suspected of being aligned with the guerrillas. This book is the...

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Main Author: Munochiveyi, Munyaradzi B. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:African histories and modernities.
Subjects:
1965 - 1980
Political prisoners > Zimbabwe > Biography.
National liberation movements > Zimbabwe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Autonomy and independence movements
National liberation movements
Political prisoners
Prisoners of war
Politischer Gefangener
Zimbabwe > History > Autonomy and independence movements.
Zimbabwe > History > 1965-1980.
Zimbabwe > History > Chimurenga War, 1966-1980 > Prisoners and prisons.
Zimbabwe
Simbabwe
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The prison as a site of struggle during Zimbabwe's liberation war
  • The growth of African opposition and intensified state political repression in Rhodesia, 1960-1970s
  • Getting arrested : oral histories of violence, torture, and arrest in Rhodesia, 1960-1979
  • Life in detention : oral histories of confinement in Rhodesian detention centers
  • Life behind bars : oral histories of life inside Rhodesian prisons, 1965-1980
  • Epilogue: Life beyond bars and legacies of incarceration in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, 1965-2000
  • Conclusion.

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