Mugabe’s Land Reform and the Provocation of Global White Antiblack Racism

Abstract

In this chapter, I endeavor to link three intricately connected phenomena that have characterized the Zimbabwean situation in the recent past: Mugabe, land reform, and the global white antiblack racism. In order to understand why Mugabe moved from liberation era “communist terrorist,” to postindependence celebrated statesman and back to “terrorist,” one has to be adequately familiar with the global matrices of power of which race is the chief explanatory and classificatory device.