Zimbabwe’s predatory state
Party, military and business
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6029088 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Muchineripi Gwande (0000-0003-3952-9369, University of the Free State, corresponding author), Victor Gwande (University of the Free State) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 472 |
| Pages | 601-602 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9909 • E-ISSN: 1468-2621 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/afraf/adz020 |
| OpenAlex | W2964549783 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
When Zimbabwe attained its independence in 1980, it was described as the ‘jewel of Africa’. It had the most industrialized and structurally developed economy in sub-Saharan Africa, outside South Africa. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, the country’s economy had regressed remarkably and has never recovered. Many commentators and scholars have tried to account for Zimbabwe’s sharp economic decline. The consensus seems to be that Zimbabwe’s current state of affairs is a result of political misrule, economic mismanagement, corruption, and lack of leadership. At one level, Zimbabwe is now seen as a failed state. At another, it is described as a pseudo-democracy or fragile state. How this characterization came to be is the subject of Shumba’s book. Organized into nine chapters, the book examines the anti-developmental accumulation patterns of Zimbabwe’s power elite (state, military and business) across key economic sectors: land and agriculture, mining, banking and finance, and transport...
Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Elite · Independence (probability theory) · Language change · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · State (computer science) · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |