Contested Liberations, Transitions and the Crisis in Zimbabwe: Encounters with Post-colonial (Counter)Cultures (2000-2020) (African Social Studies Series, 48)

How and when does culture enter the discourse on liberation, transition and crisis in an African post-colony such as Zimbabwe? In a deeply polarised nation reeling from a difficult transition and an unrelenting economic crisis, it is increasingly becoming difficult for the ZANU PF regime to prescribe and enforce its monolithic concept of liberation. This book culls, from contemporary (counter)cultures of liberation and transition, the state of liberations in Zimbabwe. It explores how culture has functioned as a complex site where rigid state-authored liberations are legitimated and naturalised but also where they are negotiated, contested and subverted.

Oliver Nyambi, PhD (2013), is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of the Free State in South Africa. He has published monographs, edited books and many articles on the Zimbabwean crisis, African literature and onomastics. His latest monograph is Life-writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe (Routledge, 2019).