No one in could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in became a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy and abandonment by a third of its . · In “Catastrophe: what went wrong in Zimbabwe?“ published by Zed Books next month [11 August] I am challenging this view. This is important, for if a post-Mugabe nation is to live up to the hopes held after the elections of and then so cruelly dashed, there must be greater understanding of the issues and errors which, culminating in this century, have led to a Reviews: 1. Catastrophe: What Went Wrong In Zimbabwe? by Richard Bourne. Courtesy of OSPA. Dr Jonathan Lawley (Northern Rhodesia/Zambia ) Richard Bourne's well-written book on the background to what Zimbabwe has become is remarkable for its attention to detail on both people and events. It is historically comprehensive and gives readers a good.
—Richard Dowden, Director of the Royal Africa Society and author of Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles "Bourbane's book is an important contribution to understanding what went wrong in independent Zimbabwe; it is also a good account of all the factors that blighted the country and its people long before Mugabe came to power.". No one in could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, acclaimed writer Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in , became a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy and abandonment by a third of. Catastrophe [electronic resource]: what went wrong in Zimbabwe? / Richard Bourne. Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in became a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy and abandonment by a third of its citizens less than thirty.
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