This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state’s fast track land reform programme.
1. Zvimurenga Reflections.- 2. The First Chimurenga.- 3. Land Alienation, Land Struggles and the Rise of Nationalism in Rhodesia.- 4. The Second Chimurenga – Early Literature and Nationalists-Guerrillas.- 5. The Second Chimurenga – Guerrillas-Peasants, Spirituality and Patriarchy.- 6. Post-Independence Land Reform, War Veterans and Sporadic Rural Struggles.- 7. The Third Chimurenga – Party-State and War Veterans.- 8. The Third Chimurenga – Land Occupation Dynamics.- 9. Local Fast Track Occupations – The Cases of Shamva and Bindura.- 10. Conclusion.