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Title:Patriotic history and anti-LGBT rhetoric in Zimbabwean politics
Author:Youde, JeremyISNI
Year:2017
Periodical:Canadian Journal of African Studies (ISSN 0008-3968)
Volume:51
Issue:1
Pages:61-79
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subjects:LGBT
homosexuality
political terminology
ZANU-PF
political history
About person:Robert Gabriel Mugabe (1924-2019)ISNI
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00083968.2016.1276850
Abstract:Over the past 20-years, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and his political party, Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), have relied heavily on political rhetoric that demonizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons. In this paper, it is argued that the anti-LGBT political rhetoric in Zimbabwe is part of a larger program known as 'patriotic history', which emphasizes a particular kind of Zimbabwean identity to legitimize the continued rule of Mugabe and ZANU-PF. The value of combining patriotic history and political homophobia emerges out of the unique political and economic context which Mugabe's regime found itself unable to adequately address. To illustrate how and why this has happened, the paper focuses on two key incidents: the 1995 Zimbabwe International Book Fair, and the public conversation over writing a new constitution between 2010 and 2013. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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