Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe

by Luise White

On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe from white-ruled Rhodesia, was killed by a car bomb. Since then, there have been four confessions and at least as many accusations about who was responsible. In The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo, Luise White does not set out to resolve questions about who was accountable for this horrible murder. Instead, in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253216087
• ISBN13: 9780253216083
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher