Cry Zimbabwe - Independence Twenty Years On by Peter Stiff

Cry Zimbabwe - Independence Twenty Years On by Peter Stiff

1st Edition, 2000

Hardcover, 496 pages. Published by Galago, October 2000

Text and many illustrations throughout.

Hardcover, glossy dust jacket in excellent condition. Minor foxing inside dust jacket and on the top and the long edge of the book (on the outside). CNA price tag on the back cover of the dust jacket.

With his book, Cry Zimbabwe: Independence-Twenty Years On, late Peter Stiff delivered a harsh account on the younger history of former Rhodesia an its development after Independence.

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Please note there are some brown (rust) spots on the edge pages and the top of the book, see images below    `

"Rhodesia to Zimbabwe 1979-1980

Joshua Nkomo's first reaction to the independence election results was shock. He had confidently expected victory if only a shared one with the parties of Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole but victory nevertheless. Instead, the newly enfranchised and savagely intimidated black electorate had voted overwhelmingly for their tribal roots. Robert Mugabe and his Mashona-based ZANU-PF had virtually swept the board. Joshua Nkomo, the father of Zimbabwe nationalism and once revered by the whole black population, had been rejected by all but his Ndebele ethnic grouping. Muzorewa, Sithole and their lesser Mashona allies had been ignored by the voters, if not as 'sellouts' to the whites, then certainly as irrelevants who were powerless to halt the war. Nkomo and his lieutenants believed they had been cheated, but 'felt there was nothing for it but to swallow the result and trust the alleged victors would use their triumph generously and in good faith'. How had it happened?"

(excerpt from: Cry Zimbabwe. Independence-Twenty Years On, by Peter Stiff.)

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