Re-living the Second Chimurenga : memories from the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe

By - Chung Fay

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Weaver Press, Uppsala, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2006

ISBN 10 - 1779220464

ISBN 13 - 9781779220462

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Femmes révolutionnaires Zimbabwe

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 968.91 CHU

Physical Description - 358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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This retrospective offers a first hand account on internal conflicts in ZANU during the 1970s, which resulted in the defeat of its left wing. Chung's narratives include her experiences in two guerrilla camps. She recalls her encounters with the charismatic Josiah Tongogara, a legendary military commander during Zimbabwe's liberation war (known as the ©second chimurenga♯), who died at the threshold to Independence. The personal recollection of a transition to national sovereignty concludes with an incisive analysis of developments after Independence. It ends with Chung's vision for the Zimbabwe of the future. Fay Chung served within the Ministry of Education in post-colonial Zimbabwe for a total of fourteen years, at the end as the Minister of Education and Culture. Her autobiographical account has the childhood experiences in colonial Rhodesia as a point of departure. Like many other Zimbabwean intellectuals she joined the liberation struggle. From the mid-1970s she worked within the ZANU-organised educational sphere.

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