Zimbabwe Crisis: A Credibility Handicap for China's Africa Politics - China and Zimbabwe

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, course: History, language: English, abstract: The last one decade has not been a happy ten years for Zimbabweans who have had to grapple with the ogres of hunger, diseases, run-away inflation, and uncertainty of body-politic.The crisis which has made their country a pathetic headline in international media broadcasts is not letting up; neither are the efforts being made by Mugabe's friends such as China having the desired impacts. The brooding visage of this crisis have triggered speculations about the country becoming a failed state . For example, in 2008, the U.S Ambassador to Zimbabwe, James McGee, lamented that the country was "rapidly deteriorating into failed-state status."1 Of course, these speculations are not unreasonably alarmist because she has already manifested all the known symptoms of state bankruptcy. Inflation has gone out of control; there is anomie, with the people being so unsure what to do with the remainder of their life; famine is endemic, HIV/AIDS is having a field day; and political leadership is atomized, with the members of the coalition government pulling in different directions.

Product details

• Authors: Anas Elochukwu
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2013
• EAN: 9783656346692
• ISBN: 978-3-656-34669-2
• No. of pages: 24
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 51 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V207161; Akademische Schriftenreihe
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education