Remembering Colonialism in Zimbabwe

Ivan Marowa is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems, University of Zimbabwe. Ushehwedu Kufakurinani is a Research Fellow, School of History, University of St. Andrews, Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg and in the Department of History, Archaeology and Development Studies at Great Zimbabwe University.

1. Introduction: Remembering Colonialism in Zimbabwe 2. ‘We Cannot Run Away from Our Shadow’: Memories of Colonialism in Zimbabwe, 2000-2018 3. Discursive entanglement? Concealed discourses of colonial memory in President Mnangagwa’s Heroes’ Acre speeches 4. ‘The Past haunting the Present’: State Machinery and reuse of Colonial Legislations in Zimbabwe’s Political Transitioning 5. Culture and Dressing in Zimbabwe: When Zimbabwe’s Colonial Dress Culture is African 6. Toponymy, Power, and Colonial Urban Legacies: The Case of Harare, Zimbabwe 7. Remembering Droughts and Irrigation: Government and Food Security in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1953 8. The Church, Missionaries, and the Construction of Black Masculinities in Eastern Zimbabwe, in the first half of the 20th Century 9. AmaDinga alahlelwa emaguswini: BaKalanga Narratives on evictions from Matobo Hills, 1926-2000 10. Feminist Housewives in a Colonial Space: National Housewives Register in Zimbabwe’s History, 1970s to 1980s