AFRICA - The (Un-) Making of Icons in Africa

This extends beyond the colonial architecture and the spatial planning of the institution to the medium of instruction, the privilege afforded to whiteness, and the value given to middle-class positionality. [...] Instead of violence, fissures and closures that have returning to Ghana, he became involved in made up the modalities of Zimbabwe’s the politics of successive nationalist move- ments, including the turmoil of the split postcolonial political spectrum and left between the two major nationalist par- their painful traces on the political imagi- ties, the Zimbabwe African People’s Union naries of the. [...] From the Gukurahundi that the military would take action against massacres in Matabeleland and the Mid- “counter-revolutionaries” in the ruling lands in the mid-1980s to the violence party, the armed forces moved in and effec- and coercion against opposition forces tively took power away from the execu- in the 2000s, the armed forces ensured tive. [...] In the end, the dra- tions, and with the support of the military, matic changes in the ruling party resulted Mugabe arranged the political demise of in the victory of one faction of the party over the favoured contender for his position: another. [...] Rather, his enduring integrity and accord the title of the founding principled values were the reference point father of the nation to anyone or for many to distinguish him from his com- to cement the status to the first rades in government.