Zimbabwe: Political and Social Contexts Overview

Since Independence

• The Land Question in Zimbabwe
  • The Land Question: An Introduction
  • Where is the Land Commission, or Who Will Decide?
  • The Rights of Indigeous Peoples in Conflict with Indigenous Wildlife
  • Women and Access to Land Rights in Communal Areas
  • An Extract from a Speech by President Mugabe on the Conflict between the Colonial Settler Farmers and ZANU-PF
  • Levelling the Land Stakes: Vice President Nkomo on Controlling White Ownership of Land in Urban Areas
  • The Land Act's Losers: the Rights of Farm Workers vs. Indigenous Farmers.
  • April and May 2000: A Zimbabwean on the Land Question,
    • The Race Issue
    • The land issue
    • What the average Zimbabwean currently faces
• Post-Independence Themes in Popular Music
• The Idea of One People, Government Policy, and Mapfumo's Music
• Politics and Government
  • Human Rights in Post-Independent Zimbabwe: The Bill of Rights
  • The Matebeleland Conflict
• Economy
• Communications
  • Media and Impediments to Democratization in Zimbabwe
  • Newspapers in Zimbabwe
  • The Independent Press in Zimbabwe
  • The Failure of the Independent Press
• Transportation and Related Infrastructure
• Demographics
• Environment
• Military

Colonialism and the Path to Independence

• Rhodesia, 1965-1979
• The Beginnings of Zimbabwean Protest Music
• Chimurenga Music in Zimbabwe

Ethnic Groups

• Shona
• Ndebele
• Tonga
• Whites
• Asians

Gender

• Women's Groups in Africa: Five Categories
• Chazan's Categorization of Women's Groups and Zimbabwe
• An Historical Overview of Women's Groups in Zimbabwe
• Women's Groups in Zimbabwe
• Mothers of the Revolution: Oral Testimonies of Zimbabwean Women