Catastrophe by Bourne, Richard

Catastrophe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848135215)

Vendor: Richard Bourne
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Format: Paperback
$29.95
$29.95
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Catastrophe by Bourne, Richard

Catastrophe

$29.95
Catastrophe by Bourne, Richard

Catastrophe

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale.

In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in 1980 became a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy and abandonment by a third of its citizens less than thirty years later.

Beginning with the British conquest of Zimbabwe and covering events up to the present precarious political situation, this is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and readable account of the ongoing crisis. Bourne shows that Zimbabwe's tragedy is not just about Mugabe's 'evil' but about history, Africa today and the world's attitudes towards them.

Author: Richard Bourne
ISBN-10: 1848135211
ISBN-13: 9781848135215
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2011
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2012
By Richard Bourne
By Richard Bourne
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Richard Bourne is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, and a former journalist. He has written and a number of books, including Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century (Zed, 2015).
Richard Bourne is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, and a former journalist. He has written and a number of books, including Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century (Zed, 2015).

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