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| Title: | Zimbabwe: Pre-Colonial History, Demographic Disaster and the University |
| Author: | Beach, David N. |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Periodical: | Zambezia (ISSN 0379-0622) |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 5-33 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | universities History and Exploration Education and Oral Traditions Politics and Government Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History, Archaeology Economic and social development demography social history population Universities and colleges |
| External link: | https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_412 |
| Abstract: | Zimbabwe is on the brink of a major crisis that threatens every aspect of society. The University of Zimbabwe can play a crucial role in averting or at least modifying it. In this inaugural lecture, presented on 15 October 1998 at the University of Zimbabwe, the author first summarizes his 'The Shona and their neighbours' (1994) on the precolonial history of Zimbabwe and central Mozambique in order to show how the long-term precolonial perspective highlights the coming crisis. Zimbabwe faces a demographic disaster, compounded by finite resources of land, water and electric power. Successive governments in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe have been singularly weak in long-term planning. The university ought to be able to play a major role in averting the impending crisis, but the blind expansion of teaching at the expense of study and research makes such a role impossible, unless major changes occur on the campus. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |
