This book examines the triumphs and tribulations of the Zimbabwean national project providing
a radical and critical analysis of the fossilisation of Zimbabwean nationalism against the
wider context of African nationalism in general. The book departs radically from the common
'praise-texts' in seriously engaging with the darker aspects of nationalism including its
failure to create the nation-as-people and to install democracy and a culture of human rights.
The author examines how the various people inhabiting the lands between the Limpopo and Zambezi
Rivers entered history and how violence became a central aspect of the national project of
organising Zimbabweans into a collectivity in pursuit of a political end.
