Tendi's research focuses on civil-military Based on the unparalleled primary interviews with informants in the army, intelligence services, police and ZANU PF elites, Blessing-Miles Tendi examines Mujuru's moments of triumph and his shortcomings in equal measure.
The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Blessing-Miles Tendi is Associate Professor of African Politics at the University of Oxford where his research has focused on civil military relations, intelligence, gender and politics and the existence and uses of evil in politics. He is the author of Making History in Mugabe s Zimbabwe: Politics, Intellectuals and the Media ().
Blessing-Miles Tendi has 4 books on Biography Blessing-Miles Tendi is an Associate Professor in the Politics of Africa, in the University of Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and the African Studies Centre (ASC).
Blessing-Miles Tendi is Associate Looking for books by Blessing-Miles Tendi? See all books authored by Blessing-Miles Tendi, including Making History in Mugabe's Zimbabwe: Politics, Intellectuals and the Media, and The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker, and more on
Intellectuals and Politics. · Civil-Military Relations. An illustrious African liberation fighter in the s and, until his suspicious death in , an important figure in Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU PF party in Zimbabwe, this first full-length biography of General Solomon Mujuru or Rex Nhongo throws much needed light onto the opaque elite politics of the s liberation struggle, post-independence army and ZANU PF.
Explore books by Blessing-Miles Blessing-Miles Tendi is Professor of Politics in the University of Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and the African Studies Centre (ASC). Tendi's research focuses on civil-military relations, intelligence, gender and politics, intellectuals and politics, biography, and the existence and uses of ‘evil’ in.
The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe Extract. In one sense, this is a remarkably old-fashioned political biography of an army general, Solomon Mujuru. Nonetheless, Blessing-Miles Tendi’s book is a fascinating pointer to how the historiography of Zimbabwe’s liberation wars is changing in ways that echo shifts seen elsewhere in African history, as more researchers return to the study of elites.
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His ability to weave and connect disparate themes deeply immersed in historiography takes the book beyond a simple biography to a comprehensive study of Zimbabwe’s political history. Was Mujuru truly a “kingmaker,” as Tendi would want us to believe?.