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With the People
Maurice Nyagumbo · 1980 · ISBN 0850313802
What it is
The autobiography of Maurice Nyagumbo, one of the three men who voted to suspend Ndabaningi Sithole in Que Que prison.
Read it knowing
A participant’s account from inside ZANU, written at independence.
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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.
- A Lifetime of StruggleEdgar Tekere, 2007. Written more than thirty years later, after Tekere had broken with Mugabe and founded his own party.
- 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.