Citizen of Zimbabwe: Conversations with Morgan TsvangiraiMorgan Tsvangiraiís appointment as Zimbabweís Prime Minister in 2009 followed many yearsí leadership of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trades Unions and the Movement for Democratic Change. How has that experience equipped him for high national office? Does he have the personal, intellectual and political qualities required to be President? In July 2004, as he was awaiting the verdict in his treason trial, Tsvangirai spent several days in conversation with Stephen Chan. Chan was concerned to find out if Tsvangirai was more than ëmerely a charismatic leader of the oppositioní; if he had ëhis own intellectual agenda [and] political philosophyí. His questions were even-handed and astute. ëDiscussion by discussion, Morgan Tsvangirai had become more open, more human ñ less cautious and, paradoxically, more obviously and naturally presidential.í Five years later, having reviewed the events since their discussions took place, Chan writes: ëI have not made a saint of him, not even an Atlas. I hope I have not criticized him too much or too unfairly. Probably no one could have done for Zimbabwe what he has.í Citizen of Zimbabwe is a rare and intimate portrait of political leadership in Africa. |
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... first time – with an autonomous African philosophy. Senghor, Nkrumah, Nyerere and Kaunda all tried before to suggest such a philosophy – but failed.12 The desire for autonomy, for genuine intellectual decolonisation, seeps into the ...
... first time – with an autonomous African philosophy. Senghor, Nkrumah, Nyerere and Kaunda all tried before to suggest such a philosophy – but failed.12 The desire for autonomy, for genuine intellectual decolonisation, seeps into the ...
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... . There does not appear anything by way of fiction . Morgan Tsvangirai does not seem to have the time for recreational reading . But our time on the first day passes pleasantly . He is a good interviewee 8 A Short History.
... . There does not appear anything by way of fiction . Morgan Tsvangirai does not seem to have the time for recreational reading . But our time on the first day passes pleasantly . He is a good interviewee 8 A Short History.
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... first nationwide ( but unsuccessful ) electoral challenge to Mugabe.2 Tsvangirai did not enter politics proper until a decade later , and thus is seen as a latecomer and , by ZANU ( PF ) , as the inheritor of the fruits of independence ...
... first nationwide ( but unsuccessful ) electoral challenge to Mugabe.2 Tsvangirai did not enter politics proper until a decade later , and thus is seen as a latecomer and , by ZANU ( PF ) , as the inheritor of the fruits of independence ...
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... first decade of independence. It was only with the emergence of a new Secretary-General, Morgan Tsvangirai, in 1988 that the prospect of a truly autonomous labour movement was made possible. Even so, as Lloyd Sachikonye points out, the ...
... first decade of independence. It was only with the emergence of a new Secretary-General, Morgan Tsvangirai, in 1988 that the prospect of a truly autonomous labour movement was made possible. Even so, as Lloyd Sachikonye points out, the ...
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... came to a choice between the ZCTU and the veterans, Mugabe would choose to side with the veterans. Not wishing, however, to alienate either at first, Mugabe dropped the 12 Citizen of Zimbabwe: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai.
... came to a choice between the ZCTU and the veterans, Mugabe would choose to side with the veterans. Not wishing, however, to alienate either at first, Mugabe dropped the 12 Citizen of Zimbabwe: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai.
Contents
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Inclusiveness Opposition | 21 |
The Battle for Ownership of the Mind | 31 |
Internationalism Reconciliation | 44 |
Perseverance | 52 |
Disease Conditionality | 62 |
Traditional Culture Modernity Democracy | 70 |
Healing the Future | 81 |
A Rueful Reflection | 89 |
The Twisting Turning Road Forwards | 96 |
Back Cover | 109 |
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