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This book details a long and neglected history of struggles over land and power and their entanglement with colonial policies in Zimbabwe. It centers land in precolonial political relations and recasts questions of land to incorporate both the inequities rooted in older forms of social difference, including kinship and gender, and those caused by the interventions of the colonial state.
About the author
Admire Mseba is an assistant professor in the Van Hunnick History Department at the University of Southern California. His research has appeared in the
African Studies Review, the
Journal of Southern African Studies, the
International Journal of African Historical Studies, African Economic History, and several edited collections. He teaches courses in the deep and recent African past as well as in African environmental and economic history.
Summary
This book details a long and neglected history of struggles over land and power and their entanglement with colonial policies in Zimbabwe. It centers land in precolonial political relations and recasts questions of land to incorporate both the inequities rooted in older forms of social difference, including kinship and gender, and those caused by the interventions of the colonial state.
