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Title: | Ethnicity and Factionalism in Zimbabwe Nationalist Politics, 1957-1979 |
Author: | Sithole, Masipula |
Year: | 1980 |
Periodical: | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 17-39 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | ethnicity national liberation movements Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government nationalism History and Exploration |
Abstract: | The question of ethnicity or tribalism in the Zimbabwe nationalist movement has largely been ignored by the intellectuals of the movement. The present paper examines the power struggle in Zimbabwe focusing on the role of ethnicity or tribalism as a partial explanation of the proliferation of factionalism in the nationalist movement. Since the beginning, Zimbabwe nationalist organisations have been engaged in a power struggle with the white establishment on the one hand, and among themselves on the other. At first the central question in the power equation was: Who ought to govern - the white minority or the black majority? The ZAPU-ZANU split of 1963 and successive splits occurred basically on the question: Who ought to lead the nationalist struggle against white rule? The two questions are interrelated because those who wield power in the nationalist movement of necessity inherit power once the black versus white power struggle is won. Fig., notes, tab. |