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001434991 1001_ $$aMpofu, William$$q(William J.),$$eauthor.
001434991 24510 $$aRobert Mugabe and the will to power in an African postcolony /$$cWilliam J. Mpofu.
001434991 264_1 $$aCham, Switzerland :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c[2021]
001434991 264_4 $$c©2021
001434991 300__ $$a1 online resource (ix, 402 pages)
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001434991 4901_ $$aAfrican histories and modernities
001434991 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001434991 5050_ $$a1. The Birth of the Symptom in the Postcolony -- 2. The Will to Power in the Postcolony -- 3. The Inventions of Robert Mugabe -- 4. When the Monsters Go Marching In: Mugabe the Production and Its Spectacles -- 5. A Career of Madness: Performances of the Will to Power -- 6. The Return of the Symptom in the Postcolony.
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001434991 520__ $$aThis book is a philosophers view into the chaotic postcolony of Zimbabwe, delving into Robert Mugabes Will to Power. The Will to Power refers to a spirited desire for power and overwhelming fear of powerlessness that Mugabe artfully concealed behind performances of invincibility. Nietzsches philosophical concept of the Will to Power is interpreted and expanded in this book to explain how a tyrant is produced and enabled, and how he performs his tyranny. Achille Mbembes novel concept of the African postcolony is mobilised to locate Zimbabwe under Mugabe as a domain of the madness of power. The book describes Mugabes development from a vulnerable youth who was intoxicated with delusions of divine commission to a monstrous tyrant of the postcolony who mistook himself for a political messiah. This account exposes how post-political euphoria about independence from colonialism and the heroism of one leader can easily lead to the degeneration of leadership. However, this book is as much about bad leadership as it is about bad followership. Away from Eurocentric stereotypes where tyranny is isolated to African despots, this book shows how Mugabe is part of an extended family of tyrants of the world. He fought settler colonialism but failed to avoid being infected by it, and eventually became a native coloniser to his own people. The book concludes that Zimbabwe faces not only a simple struggle for democracy and human rights, but a Himalayan struggle for liberation from genocidal native colonialism that endures even after Robert Mugabes dethronement and death.
001434991 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 08, 2021).
001434991 60010 $$aMugabe, Robert Gabriel,$$d1924-2019$$xPolitical and social views.
001434991 650_0 $$aDecolonization$$zZimbabwe.
001434991 650_0 $$aDecolonization$$xPhilosophy.
001434991 650_6 $$aDécolonisation$$zZimbabwe.
001434991 650_6 $$aDécolonisation$$xPhilosophie.
001434991 651_0 $$aZimbabwe$$xPolitics and government$$y1980-
001434991 651_6 $$aZimbabwe$$xPolitique et gouvernement$$y1980-
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001434991 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMpofu, William J.$$tRobert Mugabe and the will to power in an African postcolony.$$dCham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]$$z9783030478780$$w(OCoLC)1197736918
001434991 830_0 $$aAfrican histories and modernities.
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