Guns and Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns and Rain write by David Lan. This book was released on 1985-11-14. Guns and Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book makes us understand an historical event of world importance, the liberation of Zimbabwe, from the point of view of ordinary people...It is not only a specific study of great brilliance but also a model which shows how anthropology can contribute to politics and history."—Maurice Bloch, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics, in his preface to this book
Guns & Rain
Guns & Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns & Rain write by David Lan. This book was released on 1985. Guns & Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Almost every anti-colonial struggle this century has been led by an army of guerrillas. No such struggle has succeeded without a very high degree of cooperation between guerrillas and the local peasantry. But what does "cooperation" between peasants and guerrillas really consist of? What effect does it have on the way they view the world for which they fight? In the struggle for Zimbabwe (1966-80), hundreds of thousands of peasants provided the guerrillas with practical help and support. But they went a good deal further. Throughout the country scores of spirit mediums, the religious leaders of Shona, gave active support to resistance. With their participation, the scale of the war expanded into an astonishing act of collaboration between ancestors and their descendants, the past and the present, the living and the dead. This book is a detailed study of one key "operational zone" in the Zambezi valley. It shows that to understand the meaning the war and independence have for the people of Zimbabwe themselves, we must take into account not only the nationalist guerrillas and politicians, the bearers of guns, but also the mediums of the spirits of the Shona royal ancestors, the bringers of rain. [Publisher]
Guns & Rain
Guns & Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns & Rain write by . This book was released on 2018. Guns & Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Guns Won't Stop the Rain
Guns Won't Stop the Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns Won't Stop the Rain write by Reg Jacklin. This book was released on 1973. Guns Won't Stop the Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Season of Rains
Season of Rains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Season of Rains write by Stephen Ellis. This book was released on 2012-04. Season of Rains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of poverty, starvation, and violent conflict. But while these problems are real, that does not mean that Africa is a lost cause. Instead, as Stephen Ellis explains in Season of Rains, we need to rethink Africa’s place in time if we are to understand it in all its complexity—it is a region where growth and prosperity coexist with failed states. This engaging, accessible book by one of the world’s foremost researchers on Africa captures the broad spectrum of political, economic, and social foundations that make Africa what it is today. Ellis is careful not to position himself in the futile debate between Afro-optimists and Afro-pessimists. The forty-nine diverse nations that make up sub-Saharan Africa are neither doomed to fail nor destined to succeed. As he assesses the challenges of African sovereignties, Ellis is not under the illusion that governments will suddenly become more benevolent and less corrupt. Yet, he sees great dynamism in recent technological and economic developments. The proliferation of mobile phones alone has helped to overcome previous gaps in infrastructure, African retail markets are becoming integrated, and banking is expanding. Businesses from China and emerging powers from the West are investing more than ever before in the still land-rich region, and globalization is offering possibilities of enormous economic change for the growing population of one billion Africans, actively engaged in charting the future of their continent. This highly readable survey of the continent today offers an indispensable guide to how money, power, and development are shaping Africa’s future.
