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Memoir
Re-living the Second Chimurenga
Memories from Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle
Fay Chung
2006
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Re-living the Second Chimurenga
Fay Chung · Nordic Africa Institute and Weaver Press · 2006 · ISBN 9171065512
What it is
A memoir by Fay Chung, who worked for ZANU during the war and later served as a minister in Zimbabwe’s government.
Read it knowing
An insider’s account from within ZANU.
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.
- A Lifetime of StruggleEdgar Tekere, 2007. Written more than thirty years later, after Tekere had broken with Mugabe and founded his own party.
- 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.