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Notes from a Modern Chimurenga is an extensive collection of Zimbabwe's political struggle short stories. It covers: the modern Chimurenga period from the formation of tribal trust lands (The Tortoise); the liberation wars (Zanzibar, Eating Whilst Running); the Gukurahundi massacre (Gukurahundi); the late 1990s democratic struggles pitting ZANUPF against the MDC (The List, Mbuya Chitungwiza, Operation Murambatsvina, Notes from Mai Mujuru's Breast, Breaking the Silence); the individual struggle within this democratic struggle (Mushazhike, Nyadzonya); the resultant migration and exilitic stories (Limpopo Bones, Germinston 1401); the corruption (Nyakasikana, Tree of the Year); the mismanagement of the country, the beatings and killings (Leonard, Karidza, Raising A Cain again); and the continuing democratic struggles.

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka wrote letters to Robert Mugabe, Constantine Chiwenga, Morgan Tsvangirai, The Zimbabweans, Emerson Mnangagwa, Nelson Chamisa, The Police, and in between infused the letters with deeply literary and psychoanalytic essays on the motivations of political players in Zimbabwe. Using this nonfiction literary form, the letter writing form, to protest against Robert Mugabe and the Mugabeism the letters were initially written to protest against Mugabe's continuing clinging to power, the collection has been expanded to include other issues related to Zimbabwe society. As the country moves towards a better multiparty democracy if there is change in thinking in these very important facets shaping Zimbabwe such as constitutionalism and rule of law, change and devolution of government, developmental agenda, and freedom of expression and association.

Good governance, democracy and sustainable development in Africa : an introduction / Munyaradzi Mawere & Tendai R. Mwanaka . - Envisioning African democracy in the twenty-first century : mwana washe muranda kumwe and the coloniality of contrived democracy" / Artwell Nhemachena . - Towards a United States of Africa : concepts, issues, and methodologies / Tendai R. Mwanaka and Munyaradzi Mawere . - African democracy vis-a-vis western democracy : Afrikenticating, follyfying, expibasketizing, and reversing the "African democracy" debate / Peter Ateh-Afac Fossungu . - Mandela and coloniality in South Africa / Ngonidzashe Marongwe & Tinashe Mawere . - The state and knowledge of democracy in West Africa : a critical analysis / Richard Asante . - Paradigm clash, imperial methodological epistemologies and development in Africa : observations from rural Zimbabwe and Zambia / Munyaradzi Mawere & Gertjan van Stam . - Exploring indigenous religious tenets for democratic sustainability in contemporary Nigerian society / Akiti Glory Alamu . - Global political agreement and the government of national unity in Zimbabwe : legal and political reflections / Alex Magaisa . - Culture, ethics and politics for a better and sustainable Africa : the Mozambican experience / Munyaradzi Mawere, Annastacia M. Mawere, and Pedro Celso Jovo . - Education for sustainable development in Africa : an appraisal with focus on Nigerian experience / Patrick U. Nwosu . - The unsung dimension of great Zimbabwe national monument : a critique / Tapuwa Raymond Mubaya, Munyaradzi Mawere and Joshua Chikozho . - Youths and ethno-religious conflicts in Sino-Nigerian countries : a comparative and transformative approach / Lemuel Ekedegwa Odeh . - Reviving African indigenous institutions for democracy, good governance and development : lessons from Zimbabwe / Misheck, P. Chingozha; Munyaradzi Mawere & Annastacia M. Mawere . - Architectures, technologies and indigenous knowledge in Africa : the impetus and potential o