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Zimbabwe's Waning Wheat

Sub-Saharan Africa

by  |  on June 2nd, 2008  |  0 comments

Bad news tends to follow on bad news in Zimbabwe. The latest blast comes from Zim's battered agricultural sector. Experts  believe that the winter wheat season is set to be a failure, with only 13% of the planned wheat crops having even been planted. Food shortages are already acute across Zimbabwe and especially in the urban areas. One cannot begin to fathom how things could get worse in Robert Mugabe's beleaguered land, but almost assuredly the situation is likely to worsen.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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