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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793522903321

Titolo

From African Peer Review Mechanisms to African Queer Review Mechanisms? : Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Empire and the Decolonisation of African Orifices / / edited by Artwell Nhemachena & Tapiwa V. Warikandwa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2019

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

9956-550-93-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 pages)

Disciplina

968.91051

Soggetti

Queer theory

Reparations for historical injustices - Africa

Decolonization - Africa

Electronic books.

Africa Social conditions 21st century

Africa Economic conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Robert Gabriel Mugabe and the global criminocracy in the age of criminalocene : theorising imperial fascination with liberalising African orifices--an introduction / Artwell Nhemachena & Tapiwa V. Warikandwa -- Enjoying queer sex but forgetting to repossess African land? Between land and the orifices in Zimbabwe / Artwell Nhemachena -- The queer theory and depictions of Robert Gabriel Mugabe's views on the Zimbabwean land issue in some selected literary narratives vis-à-vis the (in)famous 2002 Johannesburg Earth Summit address / Ruby Magosvongwe -- Implementing an indigenous approach to development in neo-liberalism teeming Africa : Robert Mugabe as a contemporary prototype of Thomas Sankara / Tapiwa V. Warikandwa -- Robert Gabriel Mugabe : an African liberation theologian? / Robert Matikiti -- Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean national identity and sovereignty : interrogating the Euro-American human rights hypocrisy



in Africa / Collins Nhengu -- Indigenisation of economies in Zimbabwe : is it possible with queered identities? / Bowden B.C. Mbanje, Darlington N. Mahuku & Panganai Kahuni -- Sharpening the minds of opponents in opposition movements? Robert Mugabe's education policies in Zimbabwe / Dean Trust Moyo -- Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the Zimbabwe liberation struggle and the resilience of colonialism in Africa / Darlington Ngoni Mahuku, Bowden Chengetai Mbanje & Lameck Gonzo -- Elephants in the same room : interfacing Robert Mugabe & "civil" society organisations in Zimbabwe / Peter Masvotore & Martin Mujinga -- Youths without pasts, presents and futures : African youths and the resilient (neo)colonial dispossession / Peter Masvotore -- Advancing African interests and survival? Robert Mugabe's messianic role at the United Nations / Eve Zvichanzi Nyemba -- Robert Mugabe, the military 'uncaged' and the November 2017 'coup-not-coup' / Darlington Ngoni Mahuku, Bowden Chengetai Mbanje & Lameck Gonzo -- 'To plan is to choose' : navigating Julius Nyerere's economic and political thoughts, 1961-1980s / Maximillian Julius Chuhila -- Disclosure in the extractive industries of Tanzania : drawing lessons from Mwalimu Julius Nyerere's perspective on transparency and accountability / Theobald Frank Theodory & Bashiru Ally Kakurwa -- Julius Nyerere's perspectives on natural resources : a reflection on the desired development trajectory of industrialisation in Tanzania / Theobald Frank Theodory -- Interpreting transitology from transitional justice, decolonisation and democratisation perspective : an African legal anthropology viewpoint / Tapiwa Victor Warikandwa & Artwell Nhemachena.

Sommario/riassunto

Tracing recent bouts of globalised Mugabephobia to Robert Mugabe's refusal to be neoimperially penetrated, this book juxtaposes economic liberalisation with the mounting liberalisation of African orifices. Reading land repossession and economic structural adjustment programmes together with what they call neoimperial structural adjustment of African orifices, the authors argue that there has been liberalisation of African orifices in a context where Africans are ironically prevented from repossessing their material resources. Juxtaposing recent bouts of Mugabephobia with discourses on homophobia, the book asks why empire prefers liberalising African orifices rather than attending to African demands for restitution, restoration and reparations. Noting that empire opposes African sovereignty, autonomy, and centralisation of power while paradoxically promoting transnational corporations' centralisation of power over African economies, the book challenges contemporary discourses about shared sovereignty, distributed governance, heterarchy, heteronomy and onticology. Arguing that colonialists similarly denied Africans of their human essence, the tome problematises queer sexualities, homosexuality, ecosexuality, cybersexuality and humanoid robotic sexuality all of which complicate supposedly fundamental distinctions between human beings and animals and machines. Provocatively questioning queer sexuality and liberalised orifices that serve to divert African attention from the more serious unfinished business of repossessing material resources, the book insightfully compares Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Thomas Sankara and Julius Kambarage Nyerere who emphasised the imperatives of African autonomy, ownership, control and sovereignty over natural resources. Observing Africans' interest in repossessing ownership and control over their resources, the book wonders why so much, queer, international attention is focused on foisting queer sexuality while downplaying more burning issues of resource repossession, human dignity, equality and equity craved by Africans for whom life is not confined to sexuality.



With insights for scholars in sociology, development studies, law, politics, African studies, anthropology, transformation, decolonisation and decoloniality, the book argues that liberal democracy is a façade in a world that is actually ruled through criminocracy.