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Memoir
A Lifetime of Struggle
Edgar Tekere
2007
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A Lifetime of Struggle
Edgar Tekere · 2007 · ISBN 1779051468
What it is
The memoir of Edgar Tekere, who voted to suspend Sithole in 1974 and crossed into Mozambique with Mugabe in 1975.
Read it knowing
Written more than thirty years later, after Tekere had broken with Mugabe and founded his own party.
In our films
Read alongside
- The Struggle for ZimbabweDavid Martin & Phyllis Johnson, 1981. The authors had close access to ZANU’s leaders and write from their side. Read it against Masipula Sithole’s Struggles Within the Struggle and Wilfred Mhanda’s Dzino.
- MugabeDavid Smith & Colin Simpson, 1981. Written close to the events, before most of the memoirs and archives were available.
- With the PeopleMaurice Nyagumbo, 1980. A participant’s account from inside ZANU, written at independence.
- Re-living the Second ChimurengaFay Chung, 2006. An insider’s account from within ZANU.
- African Nationalist Leaders in RhodesiaRobert Cary & Diana Mitchell, 1977. A reference book from 1977: useful for dates and careers, written before the war’s outcome was known.
- The Great BetrayalIan Smith, 1997. The Rhodesian government’s side, told by its leader. We quote it and say where it differs from other accounts.