Robert Mugabe and the will to power in an African postcolony / William J. Mpofu.
2021
DT3000 .M76 2021
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Title
Robert Mugabe and the will to power in an African postcolony / William J. Mpofu.
ISBN
3030478793 electronic book
9783030478797 electronic book
9783030478780 hardcover
3030478785
9783030478797 electronic book
9783030478780 hardcover
3030478785
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 402 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-47879-7 doi
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DT3000 .M76 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
968.91051
Summary
This 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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African histories and modernities.
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Table of Contents
1. 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.
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.