Dickson Netsha Sibanda: Starting a business in Zambia and aiding the struggle for Zimbabwe

Dickson Netsha Sibanda: Starting a business in Zambia and aiding the struggle for Zimbabwe
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Publisher : AmaGugu Publishers
Total Pages : 199
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ISBN-10 : 9780797494282
ISBN-13 : 0797494286
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Dickson Netsha Sibanda: Starting a business in Zambia and aiding the struggle for Zimbabwe by : Nyathi, Pathisa

Dickson Netsha Sibanda’s life encompasses a great number of the key events of the past half century in Zimbabwe and the central African region as a whole. This biography is as much a social, economic and political history as much a history of one man. It is a story about movement and the cultural changes it brought, encompassing the pre-colonial arrival of Sibanda’s family in what would become Matabeleland, the upheavals of the arrival of the Ndebele and colonialisation by the British South Africa Company. Sibanda’s life is also a political story encompassing the rural spread of nationalism and armed struggle in exile. Above all the Sibanda’s story is one of an irrepressible entrepreneur with a powerful desire for education and unable to let opportunity pass him by.

Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage

Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage
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Publisher : African Books Collective
Total Pages : 147
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ISBN-10 : 9780797428973
ISBN-13 : 0797428976
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage by : Pathisa Nyathi

Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards in 2006 for Non-fiction: Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a collection of pieces of the culture of the Ndebele, Shona, Tonga, Kalanga, Nambiya, Xhosa and Venda. The book gives the reader an insight into the world view of different peoples, through descriptions of their history and life events such as pregnancy, marriage and death. "...the most enduring book ever on Zimbabwean history. This book will help people change their attitude towards each other in Zimbabwe." - Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards citation

Lozikeyi Dlodlo

Lozikeyi Dlodlo
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Publisher : African Books Collective
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 9780797442665
ISBN-13 : 0797442669
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Lozikeyi Dlodlo by : Marieke Clarke

In 1999, a defiant 76-year old Mr Stanley Mhlanga confronted the Zimbabwean Forestry Commission. He claimed that Queen Lozikeyi had given his people the land from which they had been evicted. Who was this woman, an inspiration to an old man 80 years after her death? Queen Lozikeyi was the senior queen of Lobhengula, king of the Ndebele people in what is now Zimbabwe. Her early life has been wreathed in mystery, but now at last her story can be told. This book is one of the first studies of a woman who led her people while the British colonial power occupied her country. She was the intellect behind one of the most effective anti-colonial revolts. Queen Lozikeyi continues to be an inspiration to Zimbabweans today. Queen Lozikeyi, as an Ndebele royal woman, interited a strong constitutional position from Nguni royal foremothers in Zululand. This study shows how Lobhengula's senior queen and other Ndebele royal women uses their power.

Welshman Hadane Mabhena

Welshman Hadane Mabhena
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Publisher : AmaGugu Publishers
Total Pages : 76
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ISBN-10 : 9780797486898
ISBN-13 : 0797486895
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Welshman Hadane Mabhena by : Clarke, Marieke Faber

The late Welshman Hadane Mabhena, was a leading Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) activist, the political party led by Joshua Nkomo. He was among the pioneers of the liberation struggle in Nkayi and Matabeleland North. He faced incarceration in various prisons in Rhodesia. He was detained in Gonakudzingwa near the border with Mozambique. A loud and fearless voice for the voiceless, uMawelishi, as he was affectionately known among his colleagues and admirers, was declared a national hero when he passed on. While the focus of the book is on an individual, Welshman Mabhena, it also illuminates the times, both good and bad, that were an integral part of Welshman Mabhena’s life.

The Rhodesian Front War

The Rhodesian Front War
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Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X001827317
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Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Rhodesian Front War by : H. Ellert

Traditional Ceremonies of Amandebele

Traditional Ceremonies of Amandebele
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Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015055099132
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Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Traditional Ceremonies of Amandebele by : Pathisa Nyathi

This book is a splendid, in-depth discourse on the traditional, religious philosophy and practices of pre-colonial Ndebele society.

A Cradle of the Revolution

A Cradle of the Revolution
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Publisher : AmaGugu Publishers
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9780797492509
ISBN-13 : 079749250X
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis A Cradle of the Revolution by : Nyathi, Pathisa

A Cradle of the Revolution is a compelling book of stories by former Inyathi School students in the period before Zimbabwean independence. The stories render moving accounts of evictions in the colonial period, conditions at Inyathi school, and in particular the leadership qualities of Kenneth Maltus Smith, who was the school head. After leaving Inyathi school, many of the student participated in the struggle for independence. The book is an expose of the colonial conditions and efforts to dislodge colonialists and usher in independence and dignity for the black majority.

Matthew T. Mbu: Dignity in Service

Matthew T. Mbu: Dignity in Service
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Publisher : Safari Books Ltd
Total Pages : 383
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ISBN-10 : 9789785544831
ISBN-13 : 9785544834
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Matthew T. Mbu: Dignity in Service by : Mbu, M.T.

Matthew Tawo Mbu was a Nigerian lawyer, politician, diplomat, and a permanent fixture in Nigeria political affairs for more than fifty years. Most notably, he became the First Nigerian Chief Representative in Washington DC from 1955-1959, and was chief negotiator to the United Nations Disarmament Conference, Geneva between 1963-65; in 1992-1993 he served as Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Within Nigeria he was referred to as a Baby Minister, due to being just 23 years of age when he first became a federal minister; the youngest ever in the history of Nigeria. The British press, meanwhile, nicknamed him the "Wonder Boy of the Commonwealth" and his opinion was sought on many issues concerning not only Nigeria and Africa, but other Commonwealth sovereignties. He was a member of many international bodies: the London Institute of World Affairs; he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and of the Royal Commonwealth Society. In 2001 he served as President of the Nigeria Society of International Law.

Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries

Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781108278645
ISBN-13 : 1108278647
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries by : William Ascher

Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries provides a uniquely comprehensive and practical framework for development practitioners, policymakers, activists, and students to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries across a wide range of issues. Based on the classic policy sciences approach, the book offers over 100 diagnostic indicators keyed to identify problems of policy processes, policy content, bureaucratic behavior, stakeholder behavior, and national-subnational interactions. This multi-disciplinary framework is applied to a host of policy problems that particularly plague countries experiencing the 'under-development syndrome', including aborted programs and projects, policy impasses, distorted implementation, unnecessary harm and conflict, and shortsighted initiatives. These points are illustrated through cases from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Based on the developing countries' distinctive challenges, the book also offers recommendations on improving policy content and institutions to address the typical limitations.

Riding on a Tiger

Riding on a Tiger
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Publisher : Moran Publishers
Total Pages : 526
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ISBN-10 : 9789966349910
ISBN-13 : 996634991X
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Riding on a Tiger by : Awori, Arthur Moody

Arthur Moody Awori known as "Uncle Moody", is a veteran Kenyan politician who served as the ninth Vice President of Kenya from 25 September 2003 to 9th January 2008. Riding on a Tiger is an epic journey of discovery. It is the story of a man lured by both the thrill of adventure and the courage to lose sight of the shore to discover the mysteries of the sea of life. This work seeks to reconstruct the author’s beginnings in a large God-fearing family in the early decades of the 20th century and how those beginnings became the anvil on which his character as an unrelenting businessman and philanthropist were forged. In this bare-all work, Moody Awori, or Uncle Moody as many have come to fondly call him, says it all. From how he came to live in whites-only neighbourhoods before his time, through the plunge into the tumultuous world of politics, to what led to the much-famed prison reforms. It is a story of a nation as seen through the eyes of one who has seen it all.