Don't listen to what I'm about to say: Voices of Zimbabwe

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The situation in Zimbabwe represents one of the worst humanitarian emergencies today. This title asks the question: How did a country with so much promise - a stellar education system, a growing middle class, a sophisticated economic infrastructure, a liberal constitution, an independent judiciary, and many of the trappings of western democracy - go so wrong? We ask the people who know this complicated story best - the Zimbabwean people who have endured (and hoped) across the decades to tell their side of this story. In their own words, they recount their experiences of losing their homes, land, livelihoods, and families as a direct result of political violence. They describe being tortured in detention, firebombed at work, or beaten up or raped to punish votes for the opposition. Those forced to flee to neighboring countries recount their escapes: cutting through fences, swimming across crocodile-infested rivers, and entrusting themselves to human smugglers. This title includes Zimbabweans of every age, class and political conviction, from farm laborers to academics, doctors to artists, opposition leaders to ordinary Zimbabweans; men and women simply trying to survive as a once-thriving nation heads for collapse.
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AuthorHolmes, Annie & Orner, Peter
PublisherJonathan Ball
Year2010
ISBN9781868424528
BindingPaperback
ConditionAs New
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