Times of darkness : ethnicity and the causes of division within the Rhodesian guerrilla groups
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1981
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Warner, Nick
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The political history of the Rhodesian guerrilla
groups was one of dissension, division and internecine
conflict. From 1963, when the concept of armed struggle
was first seriously discussed, until the Lancaster House
Conference in London in late 1979, when the guerrilla forces
led by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo agreed to a ceasefire,
the guerrilla groups suffered a series of debilitating
divisions which detracted from their claims to represent
Rhodesia’s black majority and also affected their ability to
pursue the armed struggle. Few nationalist movements in any
revolutionary war have been beset by such serious and
persistent divisions. This thesis seeks to determine the
causes of division within the Rhodesian guerrilla groups
during the "war of liberation" - the second "Chimurenga" -
and to explain the importance of ethnicity'*' in the generation
of division.
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