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“Yesterday it was One Man One Vote, Today it is One Man One Gun:” Competing Nationalist Narratives and the Zimbabwe African People’s Union, 1961-1980

dc.contributor.authorBaker, Nicholas Donald Linwood
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinern/aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorDr. Colin Mitchellen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDr. Philip Zachernuken_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDr. John Binghamen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorDr. Gary Kynochen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-16T13:08:22Z
dc.date.available2018-08-16T13:08:22Z
dc.date.defence2018-06-21
dc.date.issued2018-08-16T13:08:22Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a political history of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), a significant, yet neglected, African nationalist party active in Zimbabwe’s liberation war between 1961 and 1980. A political history of ZAPU offers an opportunity to challenge and problematize entrenched narratives which privilege the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) as the singular, legitimate expression of African nationalism during the struggle to end minority rule in Zimbabwe. ZAPU has been criticized by politicians, war veterans, and scholars as a toothless, opportunistic party. This study disrupts this strain of historiography by arguing that ZANU’s victory was far from inevitable. By incorporating ZAPU’s substantial political and military contributions, a clearer picture of African nationalism in Zimbabwe emerges: ZAPU provides historians of Zimbabwe with a discursive tool to explore how resistance to colonial authority involved complex, contested processes, rather than a teleological movement from oppression to independence through a single party.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/74118
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectZimbabween_US
dc.subjectRhodesiaen_US
dc.subjectZimbabwe African People's Unionen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Nationalismen_US
dc.title“Yesterday it was One Man One Vote, Today it is One Man One Gun:” Competing Nationalist Narratives and the Zimbabwe African People’s Union, 1961-1980en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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