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Mamdani and Bond Debate Zim

Links: International Journal of Socialist Review has put together the “exchange” between respected Africanists Mahmood Mamdani and Patrick Bond over the situation in Zimbabwe that stems from Bond's rigorous response to an article  (also included, indeed it is Mamdani's contribution to the exchange) Mamdani wrote in the London Review of Books. You can access other articles on Zimbabwe via Links here. For what it is worth, I find Bond far more persuasive than Mamdani, who strikes me as presenting a virtual apologia for Robert Mugabe and Mugabeism.

 

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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.

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Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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