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Title:Zimbabwe: Pre-Colonial History, Demographic Disaster and the University
Author:Beach, David N.ISNI
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.
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