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Mpofu, William J.

Robert Mugabe and the will to power in an African postcolony

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Robert Mugabe and the will to power in an African postcolonyby William J. Mpofu.
Author:	Mpofu, William J.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021.
Description:	ix, 402 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	DecolonizationZimbabwe.
Subject:	ZimbabweSocial life and customs.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47879-7
ISBN:	9783030478797$q(electronic bk.)

Robert Mugabe and the will to power in an African postcolony
Mpofu, William J.

Robert Mugabe and the will to power in an African postcolony[electronic resource] /by William J. Mpofu. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021. - ix, 402 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - African histories and modernities,2634-5773. - African histories and modernities..

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.

This book is a philosopher's view into the chaotic postcolony of Zimbabwe, delving into Robert Mugabe's 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. Nietzsche's 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 Mbembe's novel concept of the African postcolony is mobilised to locate Zimbabwe under Mugabe as a domain of the madness of power. The book describes Mugabe's 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 Mugabe's dethronement and death.

ISBN: 9783030478797$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-47879-7doiSubjects--Personal Names:

895107
Mugabe, Robert Gabriel,
1924-2019--Political and social views.Subjects--Topical Terms:

895108
Decolonization
--Zimbabwe.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

451357
Zimbabwe
--Social life and customs.

LC Class. No.: DT3000 / .M76 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 968.91051

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