2024/10/23 by Joshua Matanzima, Nicholas Nyachega · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #African history and culture studies #African studies and sociopolitical issues #Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
paper · pdf · doi:10.1177/00219096241287717
crossref issued 2024/10/23 · crossref published 2024/10/23 · crossref published-online 2024/10/23 · openalex publication_date 2024/10/23 · crossref created 2024/10/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref published-print 2026/02/01 · crossref deposited 2026/04/29 · crossref indexed 2026/07/28 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
In the 1970s, the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) opened its bases in the mid-Zambezi Valley, at Paradise and Mayovhe, under Chief Mola’s territory. This move by ZIPRA was motivated by a variety of reasons. The most important fact was that the Tonga-Goba people of this region were ready to support the war because they wanted to regain control of the riverscape from which they were displaced by the colonial state during the late 1950s when the Kariba dam was constructed. This paper examines how the colonial displacements of the Tonga-Goba people, their marginalization as well as the colonial regime’s “broken promise” all shaped their participation in the Zimbabwe War of Liberation in the 1970s. To explore this history of war from below, our study builds largely from the local Tonga-Goba narratives.