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26 janvier 2023
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.10933
- isbn: 9782842698850
- eisbn: 9782367813943
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Virginie Barrier-Roiron, « A Colonial Ghost Never to Be Banished? The Case of Zimbabwe », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.10933
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When it took over from colonial Rhodesia in 1980, Zimbabwe had to recover from decades of civil war aimed at overcoming a political system based on racial discrimination. But in observing the political evolution of the country in the last decade, we may now wonder whether Cecil Rhodes’s ghost is not still hovering over Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. The object of this paper is to ask whether the political and ideological system of Southern Rhodesia has really been exorcised when independence was granted. Assessing the weight of Southern Rhodesia’s history on Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, this presentation proposes to study the phenomena through which the former colony’s ghost has revealed itself in the governance of the state since 1980. Indeed, the way Robert Mugabe conceives power and his own relation to power is still marked by a colonialist-inspired idea of what the ‘majority’ is, therefore preventing the emergence of a definition of the nation which would now be based on objective criteria. Still haunted by the ghost of its own past, contemporary Zimbabwe still has to undergo the catharsis of the colonial system which presided over it creation.