| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1115-1122 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Southern African Studies |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 3 Sept 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Around 1995, Terry began a new project with JoAnn McGregor and Jocelyn Alexander, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and ESRC, which focused on districts to the north of Bulawayo. Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the ‘Dark Forests’ of Matabeleland (2000) was a darker book.29Another local study, it set the guerrilla war and post-colonial conflict in its colonial context. Terry was always deeply aware of the political implications of his writing, and while he may not have started his venture into Matabeleland with a primarily political intent, his focus on this region became a vehicle for critique of Mugabe’s excesses. Yet despite his unease about Zimbabwe’s political direction, Terry remained an optimist about the ordinary people of that country and about Africa more generally. It was from him that I first heard a sustained critique of Afro-pessimism, fashionable on the left and right in the 1980s and 1990s.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Sociology and Political Science