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The "indigenization debate" has been a major theme of discourse in Zimbabwe for some time. Even Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, has increased his rhetorical attacks on multinationals and white business. The author examines the debate paying attention to the desire of the emerging nationalist intellectual elite for upward mobility during the formative years of nationalist politics in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s. He describes the demands for greater African participation in ownership of the economy after independence of Zimbabwe in 1980, the emergence of indigenous business lobbies, reactions of the World Bank and the unions to the indigenization debate etc. (DÜI-Sen)