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Prisoners of Rhodesia

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137482730

ISBN: 978-1-349-50319-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 8, 2015

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Introduction: Suffering for the Nation: The Prison as a Site of Struggle during Zimbabwe’s Liberation War

Munochiveyi, Munyaradzi B.

Pages: 1 –25

[During conversations with former African political prisoners of the Rhodesian1 colonial regime, “we suffered for this nation” was a common reflective phrase that informants used in order to claim their place within the narrative of Zimbabwe’s anti-colonial struggle in the late-twentieth century....
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The Growth of African Opposition and Intensified State Political Repression in Rhodesia, 1960–1970s

Munochiveyi, Munyaradzi B.

Pages: 27 –63

[This chapter documents the growth of African nationalist opposition to Rhodesian colonial rule and the intensification of state repression in the 1960s and 1970s. First, the chapter suggests that unlike the dominant nationalist narrative that stresses the critical mobilizing role of African...
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Getting Arrested: Oral Histories of Violence, Torture, and Arrest in Rhodesia, 1960–1979

Munochiveyi, Munyaradzi B.

Pages: 65 –120

[In the wake of growing African political opposition, and the outbreak of the guerrilla war in the countryside in the early 1970s, political imprisonment became an important tool of governance and repression for successive Rhodesian governments. This chapter demonstrates that, as a way of...
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Life in Detention: Oral Histories of Confinement in Rhodesian Detention Centers

Munochiveyi, Munyaradzi B.

Pages: 121 –153

[This chapter discusses the experiences of African political activists confined by Rhodesian authorities to remote and specially designated detention centers across Rhodesia, from the early 1960s to 1979.1 In these detention centers, African political offenders confronted varying degrees of...
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Life Behind Bars: Oral Histories of Life inside Rhodesian Prisons, 1965–1980

Munochiveyi, Munyaradzi B.

Pages: 155 –198

[Political imprisonment in Rhodesia constituted a second form of confinement for African political offenders. However, unlike life in detention centers, where for a while Rhodesian authorities left political detainees to their own devices in remote regions of the country, prison life for African...
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Epilogue: Life Beyond Bars and Legacies of Incarceration in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe, 1965–2000

Munochiveyi, Munyaradzi B.

Pages: 199 –223

[This chapter is about the impact of incarceration beyond Rhodesian jails and detention centers. It also reflects upon the legacy of liberation wartime political detention and imprisonment, specifically accounting for the silencing and marginalization of this history vis-à-vis the post-colonial...
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Conclusion: Political Imprisonment and Memorializing Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle

Munochiveyi, Munyaradzi B.

Pages: 225 –231

[Given the prominence of other histories of political imprisonment such as those in South Africa during the anti-apartheid movement and other places, it is surprising that, before this book, such a history was absent for Zimbabwe. Among Zimbabweans, memories of the anti-Rhodesian liberation...

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